Reaction Paper for Futurama

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Reaction Paper for Futurama

Futurama’s pilot episode, Space Pilot 3000, about a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy named Fry who on December 31, 1999 was accidentally frozen- and was then revived on December 31, 2999. He found himself one thousand years in the future.

In the episode, the future is a wonder world, brought to life by cool tech gadgets and ridiculous innovations. It was neither an exaggeration nor an understatement of visions of the future. It showed that the future could be strange, wild, disastrous, hilarious, wonderful, and realistic. The episode provides an interesting suggestion of how the future can be good in some ways and bad in others. There were robots, talking frozen heads, suicide booths (a thing about the future that's bad), career chips and other mechanical whizz-bangs. This episode was fairly straightforward, with things moving chronologically. The technological shifts and innovations in the 31^st century were remarkable but their way of life has similarities with that of today.

Time travel also happened through a rare circumstance in the episode. Fry wound up in a cryogenics lab, freeze inside and woke up a thousand years late.  Time travelled was dealt through cryogenics, a way of freezing people to keep them alive. Fry was put into Cryogenic Tubes and set for a number of years before he came out. He was unfrozen at a later date with no aging that took place, or other ill effects. . I was amazed that it did not give Fry damage to his body – I thought freezing would cause all the cell walls to burst.  

There is something very exciting and compelling about Futurama. I have always thought of the future as an era in which people would travel around in personal spaceships, flying on streets through jetpacks and read tablet-like books.  And those innovations are now coming true. In Futurama, the future did not show a utopian or idealistic society. Who knows? The science fiction cartoon, Futurama, might hold the secret to the future’s innovation potential and values upheld in the society.