I should've mentioned this in the last post, but shows made decades ago that talk about the future are really fascinating because they demonstrate how they think technology will go. Macross takes place in 2009, and wow they missed a lot. For example, no one has cellphones and they go to great lengths to accommodate this. If you know someone's in the city, you can call a robot that will physically give the phone to the person. It's kinda the opposite in real life: We have phones on our person, but we're still working on that robot technology.

Star Trek is another great example. I was laughing my head off watching Kirk, Spock, and McCoy walking around this "futuristic" world filled with cathode TVs, walkie-talkies as big as your arm, and computers larger than my entire room.

There's the oft-quoted Back to the Future, but more of what we're lacking than what we have: We don't have the flying cars or skateboards, nor do we have the machine that can create a large pizza from a tiny one in an instant.

Shinji won't stop listening to his cassette tape in Evangelion, which I always found weird since the series came out in the 90s, long after CDs at least were introduced. Considering how much he rewinds that shit, I'm certain he would've loved an mp3 player that does auto repeat. Did we ever find out what he's listening to?

It always makes me wonder what we'll laugh about when look at the movies we're making today. What will we inaccurately think we'll develop? Every series I've seen missed a really important thing: The internet. They never realized the "internet culture" that would develop and only imagined an extension of what they already knew: basically just video-chat instead of telephones, email or texting but in a manner similar to the paper documents they sent out back then. We're probably doing the same thing within our own context. I wonder though who'll be more spot on than others?