I think science fiction's future will largely remain in its own realm. This is due to the fact that it is meant to be entertainment, much like the old storytellers of recycled myths.

The myths of ye gods touching mortal life gave comfort to us mortals by making us feel the gods were like us—they transformed us and fought battles in the heavens like we fight battles here on Earth.

Science fiction is magic, fantasy, science and art, meshed and pressed into a specific formula of the universal future of man, in which mortals come in contact with alien races who are technologically and scientifically advanced superior beings. One example is STARGATE, which is an on-going television show involving ancient Egyptian deities who are really ancient aliens who enslave and exploit the human race for their own gain. They are portrayed as battling in the heavens, at odds with one another as in ancient times.

Science fiction is full of streamlined technology and space exploration, and also of space battles, again like the gods of old. Perhaps the theme is as old as the Universe itself.

ENEMY MINE is such a movie, where aliens and humans are thrust together. They become an inseparable duo in life and death, in my mind anyway. The classic STAR TREK embraced and utilized both technology and the exploration of science and alien cultures for the advancement of man, to bring about a singular cultural diversity and universality of all races in their place in the creation and evolution of man and society as a whole, that all technology and science should be embraced in such a way and understood at our own expense.

Like the ancient cultures we are creating in science fiction movies and books more gods and demigods, myths known to exist in ancient societies to add to the list as ancient lore and storytelling one day falls by the wayside.

As statesmen, politicians, presidents, scientists, and actors become like the gods of old and societies fall into chaos and disrepair I imagine we will become like the MAD MAXES of the world which anarchy rules. In the future of science fiction the next generation, inspired, will create its own alternate societies and worlds, which will seem like fantasies of old.

In other words we are still re- inventing the wheel as it goes around.

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