Fry reppin’ the 21st to the 31st.

There’s no time travelling involved, only the survival of select individuals through cryogenic freezing. When the protagonist 21^st century man named Fry finds himself in the 31^st century, the pilot episode of Futurama sets the thematic trajectory of the TV series

Futurama’s pilot episode attempts to portray what happens when a modern human of the 21^st century is sent a thousand years to the future. The land, air, and seas (and space) are filled with different intelligent non-human life forms, filled with the technological advances that can’t be imagined even by our times. Except that there’s still wires. I knew it, we may invent cryogenically-freezing technologies to extend lives, radio communicate up to farthest reaches of space, but wires would be here to stay and always pester us.

Unfortunately, not all is good. Like wires. Like the noose by which suicidals employ to hang themselves, the idea of suicide still exists and there is even a machine that gives people the way by which to kill themselves. I think we can all agree that a population committing suicide is problematic to a society, and by this logic, we can assume that suicidal has more harmful effects than beneficial.

This reminds us that, the technological advancement comes second to the intellectual, cultural and moral advancement of a species. No matter the advancement of technology, it is the advancement of the human race’s intellectual and cultural that matters. It seems though that the people of the 31^st century are a little, if any, different to the humans of the 21^st.