The advanced Olympics have already changed a slap-up tidy sum since their early year . prowess events like architecture , literature , picture , and music went out the window in 1954 , and many effect , such as heap biking , synchronized swim , curl up , and mesa lawn tennis were added only in the last 30 years . So how might the outcome change in the future ? We look to Olympic skill fabrication , as well as a few current outcome .
competitor will battle to the end . Long before The Hunger Games skill fabrication writers project televise battles to the death . In Walter F. Moudy ’s short story “ The Survivor , ” the US and Russia have done away with warfare , instead arrest the Olympic War Games , a televise event that mark 100 American soldiers against 100 Russian soldiers and beams the horrors of warfare right into civilian ’ dwell rooms . The heir of those who die receive a gravid chunk of money ; survivors of the game are exempt from all jurisprudence and receive straight-out funds . The problem is , Olympian victors do n’t integrate back into guild terribly well .
The competitions will test professional , rather than gymnastic , prowess . The stakes are high in the Olympics of Isaac Asimov ’s story “ Profession . ” or else of vie in athletic outcome for personal pride , land , and aureole , Olympians compete in professional competition that quiz how worthful they will be to a future employer . Perform well , and you ’ll receive a contract with a top - notch Outworld . If you choke , you ’ll find yourself sent to work on an inferior satellite . So check that your educational tape measure are up to date before stepping into the arena .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbwiADe2-o
The Olympics will be a way of pacifying the masses — with smut . Sex is an Olympic event in the 1968 Theatre 625 performance The Year of the Sex Olympics . In fact , as the name intimate it is the Olympian event . The upper class utilise a constant stream of telecast screwing to placate the uneducated masses . ( One wonders how many level they award for a proper dismount . ) When involvement in sport sex get down to go down , they cook up a much more interesting plot : dropping protester on a deserted island and see what they do . summate one homicidal psychopath , stir , and you have a fictional harbinger to Survivor .
Robots will compete . By Futurama ’s year 3004 , automaton have their own Olympic events , like bending . dead on target to Futurama ’s “ the more things change , the more they stay the same ” fashion , manbots and fembots contend on an individual basis . As a incentive , micronations like the Nation of Joe get to contend in the Earth Olympiad , as does the Republic of French Stereotypes , whom everyone hates .
The Olympics will become a contest of scientific superiority . In Ted Kosmatka ’s novel The Games , humans no longer contend in Olympian upshot . rather , the geneticists from various nations create more and more destructive and invulnerable gladiators from various types of DNA ( but never human ) . The dependable your designs , the more probable your land is to succeed the atomic number 79 . But the private road to advance can sometimes ruff good sensory faculty ; one squad , dire to keep up its gain ground run , create a prizefighter so unpitying and guileful that they ca n’t control it .
Genetically modify athletes will compete . Competition through science is also a key constituent of Tom Sullivan ’s story “ The Mickey Mouse Olympics . ” It may be illegal for genetically enhanced jock to compete in the Olympics , but that does n’t stop the US and the USSR from initiating a Cold War of gymnastic modifications , brush off any funny feature their jock might sport as nascency defects . There ’s a like genetic engineering competition in Nicholas V. Yermakov ’s story “ A Glint of Gold , ” and in Kevin Joseph ’s novel The Champion Maker , a track tutor reveal a “ gene dope ” cabal .
Regarding other brand of human sweetening , questions have already arisen in real life as to whether Oscar “ Blade Runner ” Pistorius ’ prostheticsoffer him an unjust advantageover other competitors . But MIT biomechanics engineer Hugh Herr , who assert that Pistorius ’ bladeslend him no such advantage , still consider that we ’ll finally have Olympic - sanctioned limbs ( that mimic biological tree branch function ) and superior tree branch . Those ranking limbs , he evoke , might even demand a power Olympics of their very own .
https://gizmodo.com/will-oscar-pistorius-prosthetic-legs-give-him-an-unfair-5928715
Transhumanist groups will bid for athlete endorsements . Even if transhuman athletes ca n’t vie in the Olympic Games , as in Ian Creasey ’s story“The Prize Beyond Gold,”transhumanist groups can still attempt to recruit athletes at the ends of their careers . In these future Olympics , platter break has become progressively rare and athletes are strictly forbidden any chemical or biological alterations . But man , if you do break a record , those endorsement contract start pour in — and not just from financial presenter . Enhanced human race will require you to join their special clique as well , indorse their particular group by choose the same enhancement they did .
Participants will have to adapt to events admit in other gravities — or in space . In the Judge Dredd write up “ The First Lunar Olympics , ” Olympic records are broken left and correct thanks to the moon ’s gloomy gravity . ( Incidentally , a binge of Olympian cheat results in a abbreviated , televised war game , not unlike that in Moudy ’s story . ) In Stephen Marlowe and Milton Lesser ’s book Stadium Beyond the Stars , the protagonist is an Olympic - level
The organizers of the first Space Olympics will be entirely unprepared . In this SNL Digital Short , the Space Olympics sounds like a rad idea , until you agnise the organiser screwed up the budget , did n’t take enough air , and left the Olympic village vulnerable to alien attacks . But hey , at least we get to put the word “ infinite ” in front of all the consequence .
We ’ll control the weather during the result . This is a bit of an odd one , but it actually come in from realism . For the 2008 Olympics , the Beijing Weather Modification Office had a system in place to scoot silvery iodide into oncoming clouds to seed and run out them before they get hold of Beijing , ensuring teetotal weather for the hatchway ceremonial . Perhaps perfected weather condition ascendancy in next Olympic city could mean sunshine and snowfall at the appropriate sentence , grant us a more predictable Olympics , at least in one regard .
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