[junto]

I pessimistically see a much worse future. A kind of cross between:

- Orwell's 1984

- Aldus Huxley's Brave New World

- Philip K. Dick's Minority Report

- Andrew Niccol's Gattica

[userulluipeste]

Both "Brave New World" and "Gattica" have as one of their underlying ideas the genes cultivation, which basically expands the general capabilities of the humankind. That might be a bit dramatic on an individual level (as it is depicted in "Gattica"), but overall why is that "a much worse future"?

[quesera]

Pedantry, but hopefully interesting:

Gattaca is spelled with two A's. The letters in the word are from DNA base pairs: guanine, thymine, adenosine, and cytosine.

Attica is a part of ancient Greece. Also a prison in New York.

Not sure which reference the creator of Gattaca intended. Maybe both.

[a3n]

I see a much more mundane dystopia, where almost no progress happens anymore, as the US Congress clearly intends.

[nickff]

This is Huxley's "Brave New World", full of make work programs, opiates for the people, and no change.

[a3n]

I would love a make work program that paid people at least subsistence.

[BerislavLopac]

You forgot Idiocracy.