The Corporate SciFi Takeover
They Bought the Future and Sold It Back to Us
Remember when the future was gonna be awesome?
Moon bases! Jetpacks! Alien pen pals who actually respected consent! It was supposed to be a cosmic block party where humanity leveled up and finally figured out how not to be the worst. But somewhere between “space race” and “content pipeline,” we stopped dreaming—and started streaming.
Today, science fiction feels less like a hopeful glimpse ahead and more like a corporate user agreement we forgot to read. And the biggest plot twist? The very megacorps sci-fi used to warn us about… are the ones now producing it. Weyland-Yutani would be jealous.
Let’s fire up the retroscope and dig into how we went from NASA’s golden age to Netflix’s branded dystopias.
When Sci-Fi Looked Up
Star Trek: The Original Series dreamt of peace and free healthcare (and Wi-Fi).
2001: A Space Odyssey introduced cosmic rebirth.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Aliens just wanted to vibe with us through music.
Even the apocalyptic stuff like Planet of the Apes came with a side of “hey, maybe we can do better.”
The Corporate Takeover
Alien whispered that maybe, just maybe, corporations in space don’t have our best interests at heart.
Blade Runner replaced stargazing with neon-soaked capitalism.
RoboCop said, “What if even justice is a trademark?”
Our Tools, Our Terrors
Her showed an AI who ghosts you.
Ex Machina gaslit us into fearing android charisma.
The Matrix plugged us in and said, “Enjoy your simulated fast food.”
Alone in the Future
In Moon, it’s one man and a very polite robot.
In The Midnight Sky, it’s George Clooney vs. extinction.
Black Mirror? We’re all “connected,” but nobody answers the emotional phone.
Earth as Afterthought
Wall-E turns the planet into a landfill.
Snowpiercer says we ruined it, froze it, and started eating each other.
The Expanse treats it like a polluted timeshare with bad management.
Redefining Humanity
In Gattaca, your DNA decides your destiny.
Altered Carbon swaps bodies like iPhones.
Orphan Black turns identity into a patent dispute.
Future Politics
District 9 took on apartheid.
The Handmaid’s Tale says, “Hey, remember history? It bites.”
Hope Isn’t Dead
The Orville dares to smile at the stars.
For All Mankind gives us alternate timelines where we didn’t totally drop the ball.
These stories aren’t naive. They’re rebellious. Choosing hope now is a radical act.
The future doesn’t belong to corporations. It belongs to storytellers. To weirdos with big ideas and even bigger hearts. The ones who still believe that we can do better.
Are we watching the end of sci-fi’s hope—or just the middle act before everything gets awesome again?
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