Ok, I start and you follow it! =)
1. All robots are filled with some green slime
2. Surrogates have to be charged overnight every day
3. It´s the future, yet we still use flash drives, USB, and LCD screens
4. 2/3 of the world earn less that 1 USD a day, yet 98% of mankind can afford one Surrogate
5. and having almost 7.000.000.000 surrogates charging does not produce a power grid collapse
... I guess many people would explore new ways for jacking off ... ;)
shareIt's pretty common in Hollywood for cinematic effect to hide inconsistencies like a power grid failure, maybe in the future mankind has solved its energy problemsSource:Movie Review For Surrogateshttp://moviereviews.noskram.com/2009/11/movie-review-for-surrogates
shareMillions of surrogates, presumably controlled by radio signals, and yet there's unlimited radio bandwidth to accommodate the signals and zero lag when controlling them (again something familiar to WoW players).
shareI know these are all in fun, but:
"4. 2/3 of the world earn less that 1 USD a day, yet 98% of mankind can afford one Surrogate"
This occurs sometime in the future. Maybe Third World living standards and wages have improved significantly. Although I agree that 98% seems too high--not just due to likely income demographics, but that I think more than 2% would be pretty hesitant to use them. The premise for using them may be the world being a "dangerous place", but it always has been a "dangerous place" and yet people today shrug it off and live life--why would that attitude change so suddenly and completely?
Besides, it doesn't have the feel of being that far in the future.
Although one thing of note: the "Dreads" all seem to be living in dirt-poor conditions. I wonder if the job market has become generally discriminatory against dedicated "meatbags" (that techie being a rare exception that has overcome that).... Maybe that explains 98% deciding/acquiescing to using them. Some governments may actually subsidize their use as well, or it could be a standard employee benefit (as it would probably increase productivity--same reason they might discriminate against "meatbags").
"5. and having almost 7.000.000.000 surrogates charging does not produce a power grid collapse"
Assuming a majority of users charge them at night, that seven billion would be divided up amongst the various time zones. I.e. when the surrogates of the Americas plug into their chargers, European and African surrogates are "waking up" and unplugging, and Asian surrogates are halfway or so through their day.
- Murdering a police officer in her (or his) private residence in the dead of night is really easy to do, as there are no fail-safe systems (futuristic burglar alarms etc) within their homes, or inquisitive neighbours within hearing distance of the unmistakeable sound of a gunshot.
"My name's Brian and so's my wife!"
Despite surrogates being able to run and jump very high without getting tired, they choose to use the subway to get around.
All the surrogates on the subway all have cold, robotic facial expressions and sit up straight, but the "hero of the film" surrogate slouches and looks fed up!
Surrogates can jump from a great height onto a dancefloor full of surries without injuring any one them, yet in the salon and when the agent kicks the sh!t out of a surrie, the surrogates' skin is very thin.
Some female surrogates wouldn't be seen dead with a turquoise bag, let alone a whole turquoise suit.
A lot of male surrogates have really obvious wigs.
When you disconnect many surrogates at once it will take about 20 seconds for them to actually collapse.
Despite humans all being out of shape, the newsreaders and their coworkers can sure get to work fast!
"Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends..."share
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