featurefilms:What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books,
featurefilms:What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots.Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms […] while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. — Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media -- source link