Futurama: Space Pilot
December 31, 1999-the last New Year's eve ofthe 20thcenturyand the startofthe 21stCentury, a hopeless delivery boy namedPhilip J.Fry orsimply Fry was asked to deliver a box of pizza and beer to a man named I.C. Wiener. He was so despised with his life for he had to deliver the pizza without pay, his girlfriend left him and started to date another man his bike was stolen by someone. After he arrived at the cryogenic lab, the place indicated on the address, he realized that it was just a prank call. So he just drunk the beer and blows a noise-maker, which make him fall to the open tank and started to freeze. The tank was set to a thousand years of being frozen. When he woke up, he saw flying cars wjich made him realize that he was in the future. He befriended Bender, a suicidal robot. He also met his nephew Professor Famworth. He also befriended Leela, the one he tried to escape from for Leela wanted to implant a chip that will make him a delivery boy forever. Fry with Bender and Leela became job deserters and being wanted by the police. With Prof. Famworth's inter-galactic ship, they evaded the police. The three of them became the crew of the ship.
In Futurama, we were able to foresee the possible future of our civilization. There are museums with tanks containing heads which can talk, cryogenic tube which can help you travel to the future, the flying cars which are the primary transportation and the microchips being implanted which will dictate the career you will have. It also shows us that other lifeforms like cyclops may inhabit on our planet.
The bottomline of the first episode is thatCryogenicswas beingusedtotravel tothe future.Our bodywillfreeze becauseofthe absenceofheatwhichwillpreserve our body. And when the time comes for the it to defrost, that's the time for the consciousness of the man to come back and continue his life as if there's nothing happened. And I think that this might really be a possible way of travelling to the future.
Sources:
Space Pilot 3000 - Episode - Season 1 - Ep. 101 | Comedy Central
John Erick D. Penetrante
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