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Have you ever noticed how scifi settings over time have trended to be less distant in the future (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/random@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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i was thinking maybe we're more optimistic about how fast society can advance than in the past and thats being reflected in our media. like Asimov stuff vs star trek vs cyberpunk, bladerunner, type stuff being set like 50-100 years from now instead of like, the year 3000+. maybe im wrong

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[–] pigeonpaints@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I don't think you're wrong at all. Another semi-recent game that took a perhaps too optimistic view of how quickly our tech would advance was Detroit: Become Human. It came out back in 2018. I recall how the fandom (myself included) was kinda weirded out about the setting of that game, which was only 2038. So within a roughly 20 year time gap, the game presumes that our current tech in then 2018 would advance so far and fast by just 2038.

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It'd only be realistic if the y2038 bug temporarily took out all the androids because they're running Debian 10 or something.

[–] pigeonpaints@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

LMAO 😂 okay, but does it count if they’re running a distro that’s more bleeding edge?