Hold on, are the years listed for The Matrix and Dune right? Isn’t Dune like thousands of years in the future? Like so far in the future humanity has forgotten where Earth even is.
Dune is minimum 20k AD. When people say “Dune takes place in the year 10,000”, that’s 10k years after an event that took place at least after 10k AD.
Yes but Paul knows who Hitler is for some reason
Future fiction loves bringing up contemporary (to the reader) figures and events. Star trek is obsessed with it.
Which makes sense since its just social commentary in space
idk we know egyptian pharaohs it’s not that hard to imagine that he will be remembered, especially among politicians and history buffs
There’s some weird appearances of contemporary art too. Pretty sure Vincent van Gogh works appear in chapterhouse.
This graph sucks. 2084 is listed twice but at different lengths.
2084 is a leap year dummy.
There’s also no Mad Max.
What kind of apocalyptic list doesn’t include any Mad Max?
One of the 2084s is also believed to be 2142 though it’s not mentioned in the movie. But 2142 is the best guess anyone has for AI.
why is this a bar graph lmao
Ok, but why a bar graph??
I think the UK is on track for 2038 V for Vendetta.
Hey we’ve got children of men before thatand I reckon there’s a not terrible shout of some of the things coming true there.
If we end up with the birth rate issues of Children of Men in the US, we’ll end up with Handmaid’s Tale instead of cool one shot battle scenes
We can only but hope! But not keen on how soon after we’ll open a portal to hell. . Liberate me. .
Woooooooo 🎭
V for Vendetta in 2038 is eerily similar to what’s happening right now. The UK is slowly turning into a surveillance state with all of the biometric scans and digital ID that the government is trying to organize. Oh, and don’t forget those facial recognition cameras that are popping up in public places throughout England and Wales.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition
Did they choose 2038 because of the Unix date issue?
It would be a very weird coincidence, but I think the 2038 regime is mostly an internet-born conspiracy theory.
Yeah I’m going to start to try and figure outta which camera these are and just stealing and destroying them.
Tbf, that’s been a thing for a long time now. Still feel much freer living here than the US.
But if we’re giving it a generous timeline of accumulating effects, then yeah I’d say 2038 is probably accurate for when the other shoe finally drops lol
Democracy in the UK is already kind of dying. At this point the UK government is just doing whatever they want (such as laws which weren’t on the manifesto) and completely ignoring the people when they petition against it.
Also they predicted conservatives would be the ones implementing this oppressive government while shouting about God and immigrants pretty well.
Well the thing is, a lot of the stuff the current UK government are doing wasn’t actually on the manifesto. Even the people who voted for them had no idea this would happen.
I feel it’s more like this:
Ah, the US of A version
Yeah you’re WAAAAAAAAY off with Dune.
Add a zero and it’s about right.
Yeah, the first book is the year 10191 after the founding of the navigators guild. There isn’t good (canon) information as to just how far away the founding is from now, but they already had FTL travel by then. The guild just made it safe; they were just raw dogging foldspace before then.
That’s a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don’t quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don’t need a two-dimensional graph.
Dune is far more distant
I remember everyone making memes about passing Back to the Future. It was so fun cuz it was the 2010s. I don’t think anyone made jokes about passing Blade Runner’s date, 2019 wasn’t a good year to make jokes.
(At this point Taco Bell will be fine dining by Demolition Man times)
Imagine if they all took place in the same universe. What an insane timeline that would be
Where’s Futurama?
Well, at least I can stop buying condoms soon!
Stop putting them over your head! You’re not howie mandell! That’s why your brain hurts. It needs oxygen.
