Often, when bereft of inspiration, I will berate the women in my household for ideas on any given MS-QOTD. Most of the time, it’s gibberish (the adult woman are not really good at the whole ‘weird pop culture nonsense’ thing) but occasionally, eleven-year-old Widget pulls through. This time, she asked me whether I thought we’d all be mermaids 1000 years in the future. The answer is “Man, I hope so!”, but it set into motion my thoughts about the 31st Century, and pop-culture representations thereof. A lot of possible futures exist, from the world of Star Trek’s United Federation of Planets to whatever weird century ‘Pacific Rim’ takes place in, but there are two major pop-culture visions of the world 1000 years hence, leading to today’s plus-one-millennial query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is honestly unsure which would be the cooler future, asking: Will the year 3000 be more like the world of Futurama or the world of the Legion Of Super-Heroes?
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Probably more like Futurama. As cool as flight rings may be, unfortunately things look like going more to suicide booths direction.
On the bright side, you can get superpowers from a cream, vanishing cream can actually make you vanish and you can buy a teleportation ray gun from comic book ads.
Yeah, I gotta come down on the Futurama side, too. The percentage of stupid in the world doesn’t seem to fluctuate much, and it’s hovering at just high enough to keep the imperfections and conflicts going well in to the future.
I see it as a Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek, and B5 seems like the FAR more likely kind of future.
As long as we can all be mermaids, I’m good with either.