Futurama: To the Future!!!

                Futurama is an American animated sci-fi series following the adventures of a cryogenically-frozen-for-one-thousand-year, late-20^th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry. It is created by Matt Groening and developed by him and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. 

                After watching its “Space Pilot 3000” episode I have seen that the show takes on the future as the era of human-alien interaction on planet Earth. In the future depicted by the show, you got to conform to the society’s rules. One of these rules is to accept and do what your assigned work (or fate) is – “You gotta do what you gotta do”. It reminded me of the caste system before with a different swing from the latter. People in the future are marked by their assigned jobs by a sharp, piercing device. Officials there pursue and compel you to accept your fate and it’s like you are treated as a runaway criminal for not doing what is suppose to be done.

                The science of the future is also shown to be the mixture of the advance technology of aliens and the dream-machines of mankind in our time today. Flying spaceships, hovering and zooming cars, air tubes for transportation, robots and aliens as citizens, new way of preserving heads, and cool advance machines. These are some of the new technology shown in the episode. One machine has the capacity to identify professions based on the person’s capabilities, just like how exams and interviews are being used today as the basis of our careers.

                Furthermore, the show tackled time travelling through the use of cryogenics. As can be inferred from the episode, it is the freezing of a body to be preserved for a certain period of time - minutes, days, or even years. However, this method of time travelling can only go to the future. Instead of the usual meaning of time travel to go back and forth in time, cryogenics can only travel to the future without turning back.