Why is it called 1999 if it's set in the future
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shareIt was set 24 years in the future from when the show was produced in 1975. Thatβs why.
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Realize there are people who are so eager to correct others that they overlook the most obvious troll post...
I salute you, sir, for this tiny masterpiece.
Back in 1974/75 1999 was SO far off that we really did think we'd be living in a better, fairer society which was almost ready to thrust out into space with a permanent base on the moon with regular flights to and from the earth! How wrong we were...
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I don't know about you, but I see so much ignorance and bizarre ideation on the internet that it really is never totally obvious when someone is trolling.
shareI don't think the OP is trolling. People in 1975 apparently thought we'd be living in outer space in 1999. It boggles the mind. But futurists always get the dates wrong.
shareIts not only the dates they're getting wrong. For example I don't believe in interstellar space travel no matter how far in the future they predict it to happen.
shareInterstellar space travel is impossible now. And I agree with you, it will probably never happen. But if they set their sci-fi 100 years in the future, not 25, it's at least conceivable there could be some amazing breakthrough in physics and engineering which makes it possible.
Another good example of this misdating: the original "Blade Runner" was set in 2019, 4 years ago. Where are the replicants? π€£
Not impossible, just extremely slow.
shareIt did seem very futuristic back then.
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When I was in grammar school in the 1960s, we were talking in science class that the year 2000 would feature life like the Jetsons - flying cars, robot servants, cogs of supreme quality, etc. I wondered if I would still be able to enjoy the utopia that the year 2000 would provide when I was in my advanced age of 43s. I'm 66 now and still waiting for a sentient device to have a conversation with.
There was a joke on Futurama that Star Trek was a vision of the future set 800 years in the past.
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