Saturday, March 15, 2014

Reaction Paper: Futurama

by Edissy Claudine T. Ramos
2009-33319


The pilot episode of Futurama explored the idea of alien invasion and time travel among others. The main character was preserved in in a cryonic chamber and was preserved for a millennium before eventually waking up, and discovering how things have changed and how time has passed. Today, cryonics is a ‘legit thing’, in fact there are several cryonic facilities around the world. It is a part of a transhumanist movement where participants are kept and ‘preserved’ with high hopes that they will be resuscitation and healing in the future.
Floating vehicles, transport chutes, even suicide booths appeared in the pilot episode. Clearly, science and technology progressed in great leaps. If you consider how science and technology changed our society from the 1900s to 2000s, it’s no wonder how a millennium would entail that much change.
Yes, Futurama is an animated science-fiction sitcom but no one really knows how science is going to be, how it will shape culture and society. Futurama may seem far-fetched and crazy but it shows us one of the endless possibilities of our limitless future.

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