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How sci-fi envisioned the year 2015 from the 1940s and onward
See visions of our modern age in works of science fiction, from classics by masters of the genre to cheap B-movies.
Next week, on October 21, keep your eyes peeled for a flying DeLorean. Movie buffs will remember that date from Back to the Future II, when Marty McFly turns up in our modern age. Jaws 19 is in movie theaters, Pepsi Perfect is the soft drink of choice, skateboards no longer have wheels, and the Cubs win the World Series.
That was not the only vision of 2015 in science fiction. Our modern day has been the setting for a handful of science-fiction works over the decades. Let's take a look at how the past viewed their future, our present.
1. "Runaround" by Isaac Asimov (1941)
2. "Earthlight" by Arthur C. Clarke (1951)
3. Assignment: Outer Space (1960)
4. Rollerball (1975)
5. Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
6. The Running Man (1987)
7. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Part II" (1995)
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
10. Stealth (2005)
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That Deep Space 9 Episode, actually a 2-parter, was the only one, out of of over 800 thru 2005 - from TOS, thru Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise, where they came back to earth, but 29 years in the future from what was current time - as opposed to their current time frame, still in the 22nd, 23rd, century, etc.
Trek crews made many time travel visits to earth into the past,
1) to the actual year - such as:
1984 Movie Star Trek-IV, The Voyage Home
TOS "Assignment Earth" With Gary Seven
TOS "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
Voyager "Future's End"
2) Turn of the 20th Century
Next Gen, "Time's Arrow" ,
3) Pre & Post WWII
TOS "A Piece of the Action"
TOS "Patterns of Force" (Banned in Germany because of it's depiction of Nazi's),
TOS "The City On The Edge of Forever" (Joan Collins as Edith Keeler)
Enterprise "Carbon Creek (1957)
But DS9's "Past Tense" afforded a unique look at what the world would be like a mere 29 years from the air-date of the episode! And what they showed was Very different. Most of it has not occurred the way they told the story, but some things, like the internet, were spot on.
Trek crews made many time travel visits to earth into the past,
1) to the actual year - such as:
1984 Movie Star Trek-IV, The Voyage Home
TOS "Assignment Earth" With Gary Seven
TOS "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
Voyager "Future's End"
2) Turn of the 20th Century
Next Gen, "Time's Arrow" ,
3) Pre & Post WWII
TOS "A Piece of the Action"
TOS "Patterns of Force" (Banned in Germany because of it's depiction of Nazi's),
TOS "The City On The Edge of Forever" (Joan Collins as Edith Keeler)
Enterprise "Carbon Creek (1957)
But DS9's "Past Tense" afforded a unique look at what the world would be like a mere 29 years from the air-date of the episode! And what they showed was Very different. Most of it has not occurred the way they told the story, but some things, like the internet, were spot on.