![]() Outside of the technology similarities, the elements of sci-fi with no real equivalent in our world are still highly interesting. ![]() I could list more examples, but let’s keep it brief. Many of these kids play in increasingly realistic online games. SEL showed a young generation obsessed with the Wired, which they can access on computers or tablet-like devices. It was still an outlandish concept to think that culture and modern life could possibly be dependent on internet. ![]() However, to most of the world, and certainly to young generations at the time, the internet was still a great, undeveloped mystery that nobody really knew what to do with. The worldwide web was made public in the US in 1991, and began to be somewhat more widely used in 1995. It essentially foretold the internet culture we know today. Like all great sci-fi, SEL predicted a lot about society in the future. Before that, though, let’s quickly examine the way SEL created an anime world with technological similarities to our own. There are a number of topics and themes in the anime I want to address, which show philosophical and psychological depth. ![]() Serial Experiments Lain, or SEL as I’ll call it, is a profound philosophical, psychological, and science fiction production with relevance even to us today.
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