Futurama: Space Pilot 3000

Future. Something we can change, a time so flexible and dependent that whatever our choice in life is would affect what would happen to it. It is something that we see as advanced and full of high-tech gadgets and things such as flying cars (or hovering cars) and time capsules. As of our time today, it is not yet made possible, but with the show Futurama it is possible and has already happened. Futurama is a cartoon show that portrayed science and technology as a use for the advancement of the technologies, gadgets and way of life. The show also portrays that because of science and technology we can already communicate with aliens and other creatures. They also made robots, something that people are in the process of doing right now for the betterment of our future lives.

The show's first episode entitled Space Pilot 3000 started in December 31^st 1999 with the delivery boy Fry, the main male character, delivering a pizza to a lab only to find out that it was a prank call then accidentally getting inside a time capsule and travel to the future a thousand years later on the same day and month but year 2999. Time travel is a way for us to travel time in a very short period of time using a time capsule, a capsule shaped machine big enough for any person to fit. Futurama showed how the time capsule can and will be used in the future. It also shows that in the future, we are going to be very advanced in technologies and that we can already time travel to any time we want, be it in the past or future.

Futurama tells us that becoming advanced in technologies and other aspects can be possible and that it will not stay as an imagination or dream. Science also plays a big role in our future. It is the reason that we can make technologies and make them better than before.


Frances Marie G. Flores
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