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What did Futurama get wrong about the future?
For example: they depicted Amy using a very tiny cell phone because at the time phones were getting smaller and smaller.
For example: they depicted Amy using a very tiny cell phone because at the time phones were getting smaller and smaller.
Maybe not wrong, but I've always found it a but odd how separated visible minorities still were. When it was a random alien, it was still believable, but for the Chinese and Indians, it's a little weird.
The idea that we could go another 1,000 years without completely being interwoven and everyone being some shade of brown seems pretty unlikely too, given how "small" the Earth has become with transportation only getting easier.
Even if everyone on the planet equally mixed pale and dark skinned people would still show up :o. Speaking from a Pakistani perspective, the average Pakistani is brown, but we've had so many visitors over the centuries that you randomly get very dark skinned and very light skinned people within the same family sometimes, based on a lucky assortment of alleles.
Transport is above ground. If Mr.Musk gets his way, we'll be travelling in a stack of subterrainian choutes and ladders.
It makes sense to move some transit underground, such as the theoretical hyperloop system which relies on a highly controlled environment in order to function.
As for all other types of transport as it currently exists we only put it underground when it's strictly necessary.
Perhaps one day in the future surface area will become so sought after that we move everything underground, but then that would happen in a time when we'd be seriously considering redoing the fundamental layouts of cities.
We're all going to become dwarves living under mountains.
That moment you realize dwarf fortress is a post apocalypse simulation.
That'll be between cities though. Getting from place to place within a city could still be through above ground tubes.
I think the genius of futurama is that civilization was demolished a bunch of times between now and the year 3000. Essentially reshuffling and invalidating how any technology or culture might have progressed between our 1999-2018 and the show's 1999-3013 timeline.
Civilization being destroyed multiple times really does invalidate the question! I think it's funny when they are watching TV on a 4x3 screen, but who knows...
For sure, I think they did it intentionally so they could explain away these sorts of questions from continuity nerds at conventions. The writers of the show have proven time and again they are a very intelligent bunch.
Well, it's not the year 3000 yet so who knows?
Good point, but with cell phones, the direction that technology went was not to just make smaller versions of the same old thing. In some cases we know they were wrong.
Fashion changes. Super small cell phones may still be a thing eventually.
Well, we don't have suicide booths sooooo
Still 921.5 years left for that
Supposedly they were to be established in 2008