Future makes
everyone wonder. What would the world look like 1000 years from now?
Would life be easier? Would there be aliens living with the people?
Would uninhabitable planets be inhabitable? Or, on a serious note,
would humans still exist by then?
Futurama basically
tells the story of Philip Fry, a delivery boy, and his incidental
trip to the future. A series of unfortunate events leads him to a
cryogenics lab, where he falls into an open cryogenics tube and
become frozen. A thousand years later, he’s defrosted. Cryogenics
has been similarly used by several films to initiate travelling to
the future. It involves subjecting a body to extremely low
temperatures to somehow preserve it. At present, it is chiefly used
for medical purposes. It hasn’t yet been proved that it can
maintain a body in its original state over a long period of time.
Space Pilot 3000,
Futurama’s pilot episode, shows a feasible scenario of earth in the
future. Hovering cars serve as primary means of transportation.
Robots become workers for the humans. Odd creatures (e.g. cyclops)
live together with the people. Head preservations of notable people
rest in the museum. Ultra high-tech gadgets and facilities aid the
people’s lives. All of these help in the advancement of the way of
living. However, a suicide booth has been introduced which poses a
critical question on future’s morality.
It’s really not
bad to think about the future, just don’t overthink.
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Jennylyn S. Cancejo
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