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Idiocracy 💯

I would say we're getting dangerously close to the videogame "Freedom Fighters". Just replace Soviet Union with MAGA and New York with US and we're already there.

wiki synopsis:

The game is set in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union has invaded and occupied New York City. The player takes the role of Christopher Stone, a plumber turned resistance movement leader, fighting against the invaders in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and on Governors Island.

I've always thought it would be like Tank Girl but the big company is basically a merger of Amazon and Nestle.

Right now: Deus Ex, specifically the Adam Jensen games

in the Near future, best case we get Cyberpunk 2077, worst case we get Horizon Zero dawn’s Faro Plague

It seems like we're shifting into Minority Report. There are actual pre crime divisions in police departments now and the surveillance state continues to grow exponentially.

We're not there yet, but I could see a bit more fear-mongering smashing us into V For Vendetta territory

Lots of great answers here but the first that came to my mind is Gattaca.

1984

We're in that part in the Star Trek timeline where everything is shitty.

I would say that we will very soon find ourselves in 1984 or perhaps Brazil, with a little bit of The Circle and Her thrown in, but overall it will be more like The Road due to climate change, unless Elysium technology has been developed by then, which is unlikely, but if so, it will certainly be used as depicted in the film.

Robocop, corporate ownership of major infrastructure, militant authoritarian police force.

Brave New World.

Children of Men

Right now it's like Johnny Mnemonic.

In the future possibly Wall-E or Elysium (most likely Elysium).

THX 1138. The police robots force us to build them and beat us if we don't. We have no idea who controls them.

Okay I'm gonna sound like an optimist, but I think The Expanse timeline, without the blue goo stuff, is a possible future.

I know it still doesn't sound good since um... there are still human rights issues and corruption, but hey, at least humans didn't go extinct. And we get to go to space.

I'm going with "They Live".

Wall-E

Cyberpunk 2077 but without any of the cool tech shit.

Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.

Feels like Judge Dredd

Maybe recency bias, but a lot of stuff from the new Running Man hits home. Maybe not the murder TV show but (obviously minor worldbuilding spoilers):

Bifurcated society, where the have nots have to check in to enter the nice part of town. (Related story: A couple years ago, I visited America for a wedding. After the pre-wedding reception, I was walking back to my hotel through an upscale neighbourhood, in a suit. Within a half hour private security drove by, got out of the car, hand on gun and explained they'd received calls about me walking on the sidewalk. The guy then insisted he drive me to a more suitable area.)

Unions existed but reporting to them gets you blacklisted, people need work so safety regulations only exist on paper.

Veterans Affairs is taken over by the Y and reduced to a miserable hostel and not much else.

Time in a green park is awarded by lottery and only briefly.

Ubiquitous private security.

One media network, that is free and mostly exists to pit haves vs have nots. (Pretty much social media already)

Etc. I think the part that really gets me is you don't have to imagine particularly hard to see us getting there.

Brazil

Her