Re: why might a Hollywood scriptwriter make those particular mistakes?
Script writers often aim for things like dramatic tension over realism—and in that context, those are probably not mistakes.
Most sci-fi is just garbage—if read as attempted futurism. Unmodified humans in the far future? Humanoid aliens all over the place? It’s really not worth criticising most of it from a futurist perspective.
Re: why might a Hollywood scriptwriter make those particular mistakes?
Script writers often aim for things like dramatic tension over realism—and in that context, those are probably not mistakes.
Most sci-fi is just garbage—if read as attempted futurism. Unmodified humans in the far future? Humanoid aliens all over the place? It’s really not worth criticising most of it from a futurist perspective.