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Continuity, governed by the script supervisor, is designed to be invisible.
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." ~ God Entity, Futurama S03E20
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Genetic-level diagnoses and treatments.
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Inexpensive, rapid genome sequencing.
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Commonplace genetic counselling for more than just pregnancy.
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Laws in place to govern the collection, use, ownership, and patenting of human genes and genetic information.
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Cloned tissues (i.e. blood, skin), organs (i.e. heart, lungs, kidneys) for transplant or repair.
I graduated university the same year the Human Genome Project first published completion. Certainly, that project uncovered more questions than answers.
Also, we've done an absolutely garbage job of becoming appropriate stewards of this technology. Primarily, today, it would be used to identify, segregate, subjugate, and eventually kill a portion of the population.
Books/Magazines/Podcasts:
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No Logo by Naomi Klein
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Adbusters by Kalle Lasn
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Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
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A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers
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Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner
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Reset by Roland J. Diebert
Fitting the description of movie/show:
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Mr. Robot
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Utopia (UK version)
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Killing Them Softly
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The Big Short, Margin Call
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Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
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3-Iron (Korean film)
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Parasite (Korean film)
There are several documentaries and short films
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The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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The End of Suburbia
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Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)
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Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)
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The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis
Also, you might search for films about "corporate malfeasance".
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Michael Clayton (top pick)
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The Insider (top pick)
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Erin Brockovich
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Dark Waters
Send him to the Hague. Then, I'll know he's real.
I think there was a POW scene in Magnum P.I. that was a lot for little me. Not sure episode/season.
Honestly, though, coming to the realization at abput 13 that the "General Lee" and the prominent placement for Confederate flags the Dukes of Hazzard represent an American South that promotes white supremacy, Jim Crow laws, and segregation — all antithetical to my BIPOC existence.
The cognitive dissonance involved in the song, pre-programming me to lend them the excuse that they're "just a good ol' boys..." — yeah, my parents should've known better.
The thoughts I had for Daisy Duke would've had me lynched, like Emmitt Till, under that flag. Still might.
As an introvert, it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it's jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.
Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.
Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?
호박죽 (ho bak juk, pumpkin porridge). Many a cold morning in the ROK, this was my breakfast.
Actually, a lot of my comfort foods are porridge based: cream of wheat, corn meal porridge, steel-cut oats, rolled oat oatmeal, oatmeal and raisin cookies.
Falling Down is the American Dream turned nightmare.
I'd submit that — in 1993 — the one that struck me as being the most similar was Demolition Man. Not the Sly Stallone character in comparison, tho. The Dennis Leary character was more a 1 to 1 analogue of the non-conformist pushing back on a system that deems him "not economically viable."
Later, 1998, I'd say that The Way of the Gun (wri/dir Christopher McQuarrie) does this well. I know, I know, low scores on RT and iMDB, but this movie still works for me. Even the opening scene, which sets up a world of reprehensible characters perfectly. It's a rock-solid neo-noir western helmed by a the writer of the Usual Suspects (and a long string of Tom Cruise projects including M:I 5,6,7&8.)
I'd also toss in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. A man, who has a code, undertakes to address that which he sees as unjust while moving through a world that wants to exploit him. And, American Beauty (1999) (tw: Spacey)
By the late aughts and early '10s, in the wake of the total meltdown of the global economy, Margin Call (2010, only economic violence) and Killing Them Softly (2012). "Now fucking pay me."
From TV: The Wire and Breaking Bad fit the bill.