1.Movies have been imagining the future for a long time.
很久以前，人们就开始在电影里想象未来。
2.Perhaps faster-than-light-speed space travel and teleportation in Star Trek could still be in store for the 24th century, but we'll have to wait 300 years to find out.
也许《星际迷航》中的超光速旅行和瞬间移动在24世纪时真的可以实现，但我们还得等三百年才能知道答案。
2.But for movies from decades past, their distant future is now — 2022.
而回顾过去几十年里的电影，他们曾想象的遥远的未来就是我们的如今——2022。
3.Here are a few of them:
一起来看看有哪些：
一.Soylent Green绿色食品
4.In 1973, Soylent Green imagined a New York City of 2022.
1973年时，电影《绿色食品》就想象过了2022年的纽约市。
5.People still drive '70s -style cars and seemingly fashions have gone back to the 1800s.
里面的人们还开着70年代风格的汽车，而他们的时尚仿佛来自19世纪。
6.New York is polluted and overcrowded, with food and water in short supply.
电影中的纽约市受到了污染，人口爆炸，食品和水都十分短缺。
7.The oceans are dying.
海洋也死气沉沉。
8.And one giant corporation is responsible for feeding the masses — with a certain mysterious product.
这里有一家大公司负责养活众人——用的是一种神秘的产品。
9."Nothing runs anymore, nothing works. But the people are the same, and the people will do anything to get what they need," a voiceover says.
“一切都不在运转，一切都停止了运作。但人们还在，人们会不择手段获取所需，”广播里一个声音说道。
10."What they need most is Soylent Green."
“他们最需要的就是绿色食品。”
11.The movie's dystopian future bears some distant similarities to reality, with climate change already exacerbating hunger and poverty and one giant corporation that could one day control pretty much everything.
这部电影的反乌托邦的未来与如今现实也依稀有着相似之处，气候变化已经加剧了饥饿和贫困，还有一家大公司总有一天可以控制一切。
二.Time Runner时空穿越者
12.A decade after Return of the Jedi, Mark Hamill once again imagined a future involving space travel and aliens, though this one took place on Earth.
在推出《星球大战3：绝地归来》的十年后，马克·哈米尔再次设想了一个涉及太空旅行和外星人的未来，尽管这一次发生在地球上。
13.In the year 2022, aliens are invading the Earth.
2022年时，外星人入侵了地球。
14.Hamill plays a military captain who travels through a wormhole back to 1992 and tries to warn leaders before it happens.
哈米尔扮演的是一名上尉，他穿越虫洞到达了1992年，并试图在这件事发生前向领导人发出警告。
15."The future depends on his journey into the past," the narrator warns in the trailer.
“未来如何就取决于他进入过去的这次旅程，”叙述者在预告片中警告说。
16.Aliens haven't invaded yet, though it was just last year that the government did confirm that unidentified flying objects have indeed been spotted — and it can't explain what they are.
外星人还没有入侵，尽管就在去年，政府确实证实了不明飞行物确实有被发现--而且也无法解释它们是什么。
三.Alien Intruder外星杀手
17.Also from 1993 and also featuring an actor from the Star Wars franchise, Alien Intruder features Billy Dee Williams playing a captain leading his crew into space to retrieve a lost spaceship.
同样拍摄于1993年，并且同样也由星球大战系列的演员出演的电影《外星杀手》中由比利·迪·威廉姆斯扮演一名船长，负责带着船员进入太空来追回一艘被占领的飞船。
18.Crew members turn on each other when a virtual reality alien becomes all too real.
被一个以假乱真的外星人虚拟现实影像欺骗后，船员们开始相互出卖。
19.The producers seemed to envision space travel becoming much more advanced in just three decades than it did.
电影制作组似乎设想太空旅行在短短三十年内就会比以前先进得多。
20.Also by 2022, you can see that we have laser guns.
同时到了2022年，你可以看到我们确实由了激光枪。
21."Virtual reality is no longer harmless fun" in 2022, it seems, the voiceover explains.
到了2022年，“虚拟现实似乎已经不再是无害的乐趣”，画外音解释道。
22.In nonvirtual reality, Facebook changed its company name to Meta last year as part of a push toward virtual reality.
而在非虚拟的现实中，作为推动虚拟现实的一部分，脸书公司去年将其公司名称改为玄元公司。
23.So far, virtual reality is still far from mainstream and is mainly used for gaming and immersive entertainment.
到目前为止，虚拟现实仍然没有成为主流，还只停留在游戏和沉浸式娱乐的水平。
24.But 2022 could be the year where more notable products come on the market.
但2022有可能会成为更多有趣的产品上市的一年。
四.No Escape无处可逃
25."Welcome to the future at its most primitive," the trailer warns.
“欢迎来到最原始的未来，”预告片中提醒道。
26.In 2022, the worst of the worst prisoners are sent to a penal colony run by a corporation.
在2022年，死囚犯们被送到了由一家公司管理的监狱。
27.Ray Liotta is dumped there, to find it inhabited by warring groups.
雷·利奥塔被扔在那里后，发现那里居住的是相互交战的团体。
28.When this movie came out in 1994, private prisons were already in existence, though the private prison population didn't peak until 2012 with 137,000 people.
当这部电影在1994年上映时，私人监狱已经存在了，尽管私人监狱的人数直到2012年才达到顶峰，有137,000人。
29.President Biden signed an executive order to phase out contracts with private prison operators last year, though it does not apply to immigrant detention centers.
拜登总统去年签署了一项行政命令，要求逐步取消与私人监狱经营者签订的合同，尽管该命令不适用于移民拘留中心。
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