In the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics of Isaac Asimov.

Spanish industrialist-turned-anarchist Xavier Heimdahl arranges for his associate Jan Strook—a hacker known as "the Dutchman"—to create a wormhole program that would allow the owner to bypass all computer codes protecting the world's nuclear defense codes.

In 2084, construction worker Douglas Quaid is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there.

Peter, an engineer, has recurring nightmares in which he and everyone he knows suffer through violent, alien invasion-like confrontations with an unknown enemy.

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In the late 2030s, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population.

Billionaire New Yorker Damian Hale is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies.

A skyrocketing crime rate leads the city of Johannesburg, South Africa to buy a squadron of scouts—state-of-the-art armour-plated attack robots—from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal.

A man wakes inside a laboratory on an airship.

In the near future, humans are augmented with cybernetic improvements to traits such as vision, strength, and intelligence.

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A futuristic resort, Vice, offers visitors the opportunity to live out all their fantasies, no matter how violent or deviant, on sophisticated androids (referred to as "artificials").

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In the future, at an underground base, the United Kingdom only has a couple of weeks before the city of Taipei, Taiwan falls to the Chinese.

In 2154, Earth citizens live in poverty. The rich and powerful live on Elysium, a gigantic space habitat in Earth's orbit.

25-year-old American Lucy is studying in Taipei, Taiwan and is tricked into working as a drug mule by her new boyfriend Richard for a South Korean kkangpae and drug lord.

Lee Weathers is a "risk-management specialist" for genetic-engineering company SynSect.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

In the near future, widespread use of remotely controlled androids called "Surrogates" enables everyone to live in idealized forms from the safety of their homes.