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All [[Wiki Words]] are capitalized ,<ref>[[All Lowercase Letters|except some]]</ref>, but pretend that {{smallcaps|The Future}} is ''even [[Up to Eleven|more]]'' capitalized.
 
[['''The Future]]''' is typically 200-1000200–1000 years after the present time, but there are no real set limits, and [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] has been popular at times. [['''The Future]]''' differs from [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]] by the presence of Earth--whetherEarth—whether the show is set in San Francisco or whether Earth is a distant legend, there are always ties to Earth that make it significant in the show.
 
Most books of advice to aspiring authors insist that [[Space Opera]] should be set at least several ''thousand'' years in the future, based on just how much civilization would have to develop to make such things possible, but TV shows rarely go anything like that far ahead, partly to justify showing an Earth-based society that isn't so radically different that the viewers can't relate at all, but mostly because [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. (Although really, who can predict these things?) A relatively near-future [[Space Opera]] setting can be justified by having ancient civilizations already out in space and humanity a relative newcomer to the galactic stage, which has the bonus of being able to fit in [[Expospeak]] as aliens explain what's going on to the ignorant human barbarians.
 
[['''The Future]]''' is where much of "hard" science fiction takes place. The various ''[[Star Trek|Star Treks]]s'' are set here, as are ''[[Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers In The 25th Century]]'', ''[[Firefly]]'', you name it.
 
In The Future everything might get worse or better ([[The Future Will Be Better|better]])., or simply [[The Future Is Noir|be lit more poorly]].
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If you're looking for the 2020 [[Alternate History]] novel of the same name by [[Catherine Leroux]], see [[The Future (novel)|''The Future'' (novel)]]. If you're looking for the 2011 movie, see [[The Future (film)|''The Future'' (film)]]. If you're looking for the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio drama, see ''[[Dalek Empire]]''.
 
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* All [[Gundam]] shows take place in the future, some further ahead than others.
* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' is set in 2039, where a mysterious virus known as "Apocalypse Virus" is spreading. It does, however, blend over with traditional fantasy at times, as the protagonist is able to draw out people's personalities to use them as weapons. Some are more useful than others, though. This power also becomes the cause of some literal [[Fridge Brilliance]], in episode 3.
* [[Aria]] takes place in the 24th Century on the planet Aqua, formerly known as Mars before terraforming transformed it into a water-covered paradise.
* One of the oneshots in the manga ''Robot: Super Color Comic'' takes place in [[The Future]]. It's not known how far into the future however humans have long since began living in tall towers, one of the protagonists has apparently never seen wild birds, [[Sailor Fuku]] are no longer worn, and crepes have apparently changed in style (if they aren't nonexistent).
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[DC Universe]], ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]'' live 1000 years in [[The Future]] of [[The DCU]].
** In the DC Comics [[Crisis Crossover]] ''DC One Million'', half of the story takes place in the 853rd century (farther into the future than any other previous DC story, not counting the ones involving the End of Time). A highly detailed setting was created for this in which the entire solar system has gotten [[Terraform|terraformedterraform]]ed into Earthlike worlds, the whole human race has telepathic access to the Internet, and most amazing of all, descendants of DC's greatest heroes are STILL active!
* [[Transmetropolitan]].
* The [http://www.jtillustration.com/woi Warlord of Io]" graphic novel is set in the year 2853 A.D., shortly before the fabulous year 3000 of Rocket Robin Hood fame.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'' undermines the popular ideas about the future. Life does not get better, nor do we have an [[After the End]] scenario. Instead, selective breeding for stupidity has caused The Future to be actually much worse than the present, but not in a [[Mad Max]] way. The idea came from the '50's short story "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth, which did not receive a credit.
* ''[[Mr. Nobody]]'' takes place in 2092, which is fairly utopian in that ''senescence and death have been eliminated'' through medical technology. The titular protagonist is, at age 118, the last "mortal" human.
 
 
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Firefly]]'' took place in the early 26th century (the pre-title montage indicates "2517 A.D.") in which Earth (known to everyone as [[Earth-That-Was]]) was stripped of all resources in a mass exodus to [[Terraform|terraformedterraform]]ed planets outside the solar system.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is set in the 2250 and 2260s.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' of course, where [[Humans Are Special]]-- so—so special in fact that they've created ''the'' [[The Federation|United Federation of Planets]] with [[Earth Is the Centre of The Universe|Earth as the capital planet]] which (as far as the residents of the federation are concerned) is a near perfect society.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has frequently delved into Earth's future, all the way to ''a hundred trillion years'' on, during which time the universe faces imminent collapse. It tends to show it as fairly or sometimes decidely [[Dystopia|Dystopian]]n. (With [[Whoniverse]] [[Broad Strokes|not exactly set into stone]], though, the series has shown some fairly contradictory visions of the future which include two contradictory accounts of Earth's ultimate destruction. For the record, it supposedly happens in seven million years time. Though other stories place it at five billion years from now.) ''[[Torchwood]]'' regular and ''Who'' expatriate Captain Jack Harkness comes from approximately the year 5000.
** Retconned by the presence of the Time War. Apparently it caused a lot of really, ''really'' screwy stuff to happen to the timeline.
 
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' is set in the [[Grimdark|grim darkness]] of the far future ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the 41st Millennium]], to be precise), where there is only war.
** But no range finders (only available to a select group of religious fundies), laser designators (Only the Tau have them), or close in air support, just war.
 
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* [[Halo]] The main trilogy takes place in 2552.
** Bungie's other FPS trilogy, ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' is set in 2794.
* [[Metroid]] uses an alternate calendar, but it's pretty obvious.
* [[Xenosaga]] The human race switched to TC (Transend Christ) in 2510. The first game itself takes place in the year 4767, or A.D. 7277.
* [[Xenogears]] takes place in A.D. 17276-17277, on a distant planet.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' takes place in A.D. 2183-2185. The relative closeness to the present day is a result of discovering [[Applied Phlebotinum]] on Mars, soon followed by the formation of [[The Alliance|the Systems Alliance]] and encountering [[The Federation|the Citadel Council]], both events resulting in humanity making technological leaps that otherwise wouldn't have come about for centuries, if at all.
** It's still close enough to the present, though, that present-day pop culture and religion remain intact--mentionintact—mention is made, for instance, of "[[Old Yeller]]: The Centennial Remastered Edition".
* In A.D. 2101, [[Zero Wing|War Was Beginning]].
* The backstory to ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' has Earth sending out the colony ship to Alpha Centauri in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|2060]], with a 40-year travel time that lands you on Planet in 2100. A normal game (assuming you don't go for the [[Zerg Rush]]) will typically last you into at least the 23rd century, with games lasting to the 24th and 25th hardly being pretty standard. During this time, you can research all kinds of cool technology, almost all of it being based on Hard Science well-documented to be possible as of the creation of the game (1997).
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[OrionsOrion's Arm]]'' universe is set over ''ten thousand'' years into the future. The intervening years are covered in the timeline in a fair amount of detail, and Earth is more or less a wildlife preserve/ historical landmark.
* The ''[[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]]'' was set here.
 
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* "[[Aeon Flux]]", though no real time is indicated, and the setup itself seems to change episode to episode.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' takes place mainly in 2039. The prologue of the first episode takes place in 2019.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is set in the 22nd century (the exact date is never given).
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' supposedly takes place 1000+ years from our time, so it's somewhere in the 3000's.
 
 
== Other Media ==
== other ==* a large amount of "Future" Science fiction has been made that would occur around now. Or, in other words, The Future is now.
 
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