Oh no…I’ll be alive for event horizon
Well, at least I can stop buying condoms soon!
Stop putting them over your head! You’re not howie mandell! That’s why your brain hurts. It needs oxygen.
17776 has started
Where’s my damn free nanite-made granola bars then??
Less than six years until I finally learn how to use the three seashells!
I think the UK is on track for 2038 V for Vendetta.
Hey we’ve got children of men before thatand I reckon there’s a not terrible shout of some of the things coming true there.
We can only but hope! But not keen on how soon after we’ll open a portal to hell. . Liberate me. .
why is this a bar graph lmao
So you can see how many years long a bar is.
(At this point Taco Bell will be fine dining by Demolition Man times)
Hold on, are the years listed for The Matrix and Dune right? Isn’t Dune like thousands of years in the future? Like so far in the future humanity has forgotten where Earth even is.
Yeah the Matrix isn’t right unless there’s some obscure comic that clarifies the “closer to 2199, no one knows for sure” line.
Dune is supposed to be like the year 10,000 or something?
They also left off Idiocracy’s date, which was 2505 according to the newspaper.
The Humans in Zion think it’s closer to 2199, but they don’t know about the cycle of The One.
In his cave speech just before the rave, Morpheus says they’ve been fighting the Machines for 100 years. There are people in Zion old enough that that might be accurate for the cycle they’re on.
The Architect says this will be the sixth time they destroy Zion. The Machines being machines are likely consistent in their timeline, which would mean that the cycle of The One takes about 100 years to resolve each time.
So the year is at least 2699, but likely later than that when you take into account the earlier, failed, versions of the Matrix before they figured out The One cycle.
Idiocracy’s date, which was 2505 according to the newspaper.
A most trustworthy source.
Sorry, actually to the newspaper in the movie. And I guess it was actually a magazine.
Amazing how it got everything else so close, but kept archaic news mediums that aren’t even relevant today.
In Matrix the uprisal of the robots happens around the year 2000. I remember a scene though where Morpheus explains to Neo something like “You thino the year is 1999, but it’s more likely we write the year 2199. We don’t know it exactly to be honest”.
So this could actually be true
Dune is like 10,000 years past the Butlerian Jihad which is supposed to be an existential war against AI and humans that leaves Earth unrecognizable. Even generously that’s still not even close to this millenia
Sam Altman would beg to differ.
Trying to speed run that apocalypse so he can beat climate change
No. The Butlerian Jihad is somewhere around 10,000 AD, the first book is somewhere around 20k~25k AD.
Also, in my headcannon Dune and 40k are the same universe and the story of Paul Atreades is how the god emperor came to be.
I was only off by 10,000 years!
I’ve noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn’t expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.
I mean… Lawrence of Arabia was a real person and his story was quite well known. Written into a biographical account in 1926.
It’s not a far stretch to think Herbert was inspired by those stories as well as those of the desert rats and fighting forces in the Africa campaigns of WW2, Conrad’s heart of darkness and well… Yeah everything in human history up to that point.
Oh so is that where the 2505 for Dune came from?
Yes but Paul knows who Hitler is for some reason
There’s some weird appearances of contemporary art too. Pretty sure Vincent van Gogh works appear in chapterhouse.
Future fiction loves bringing up contemporary (to the reader) figures and events. Star trek is obsessed with it.
Which makes sense since its just social commentary in space
idk we know egyptian pharaohs it’s not that hard to imagine that he will be remembered, especially among politicians and history buffs
Dune is minimum 20k AD. When people say “Dune takes place in the year 10,000”, that’s 10k years after an event that took place at least after 10k AD.
This graph is missing Johnny Mnemonic at 2021
This is also missint Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. I forget what year that was though
Wikipedia has Zardoz in 2293. I’d say it got mixed up with Star Trek for 2263, except there isn’t quite anything set then yet, with TOS starting in 2266 and SNW only up to 2261 or 62 so far.
That’s a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don’t quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don’t need a two-dimensional graph.
Affordability is a hoax. We’re gonna make food great again! Soylent Green!
No I’m on the earth?
This graph sucks. 2084 is listed twice but at different lengths.
2084 is a leap year dummy.
There’s also no Mad Max.
What kind of apocalyptic list doesn’t include any Mad Max?
I remember everyone making memes about passing Back to the Future. It was so fun cuz it was the 2010s. I don’t think anyone made jokes about passing Blade Runner’s date, 2019 wasn’t a good year to make jokes.
