But, to give Texas some credit and serve as a warning to Mr Schwarzenegger's heir, at this moment America's two most futuristic states look a lot more like equals than ever before.
Morphing (like the power rangers they resembled) into gleaming house robots for their publicity shots, the techno twins had spent the hiatus crafting something at once nostalgic and futuristic – stating that Discovery was their attempt to summon up the innocence of a child's approach to music (ie: a ten-year old had no snobbery about the dreaded word 'disco' – cleverly contained in the title).
They say the Fourth Amendment's promise of protection from government invasion of privacy is in danger of being replaced by the futuristic surveillance state Orwell described.
Sarah Green: One of the examples that you give in the book of that kind of futuristic end state is, you talk about the personal RFP.
Metropolis, which is set in a futuristic city state and explores the clash between workers and their capitalist exploiters, was one of the most expensive films made at the time, but was hated by critics and the German public alike.
Metropolis, which is set in a futuristic city state and explores the clash between workers and their capitalist exploiters, was at the time one of the most expensive films ever made.
Now that's something that sounds highly science-fictional, from some dystopian vision of a futuristic totalitarian state, but it is a plan put forward by the Home Office, just a couple of weeks ago, in the real world.
Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Montag, a fireman in a futuristic oppressive state where books are burned, knowledge and imagination destroyed, and the firemen start fires rather than put them out.
Coppola sponsored Lucas at Warner Brothers, which gave him $777,777 (for luck) to turn his student film about a futuristic police state, THX-1138, into a commercial release.
Is it really any surprise that George Orwell's tale of a futuristic authoritarian state, 1984, is on Amazon's bestseller list?
