linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Threepoint) (03/05/88)
Frperg-Zrffntr: Or fher gb qevax lbhe Binygvar. I didn't see the film Soylent Green in there. I caught it on TV recently (I'd wanted to see for a while) right after a showing of Logan's Run. It certainly passes my criteria. -- "Science does not remove the terror of the gods." | Mike Threepoint -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs | linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." | FidoNet 1:107/513 -- Lazarus Long | AT&T (201)878-0937
merchie@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Anthony Wiggins) (03/14/88)
The problem with Soylent Green is that it could take place, with or without the technology that's associated with cyberpunk. The characteristics of Soylent Green are over-population (not a function of technology), and a disapplication of medical/biological technology (borderline, at best). If anything, Soylent Green seemed to be lacking in any kind of technical prowess, where humanity is the only machine I saw. [or lack thereof] ....just a thought to embroil upon.....