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All [[Wiki Words]] are capitalized [[hottip:*:[[All Lowercase Letters|except some]], but pretend that {{smallcaps|The Future}} is ''even [[Up to Eleven|more]]'' capitalized.
[[The Future]] is typically 200-1000 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
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]]'' are set here, as are ''[[
In The Future everything might get worse or better ([[The Future Will Be Better]]).
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* 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.
* [[
* 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).
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* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is set in the 2250 and 2260s.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' of course, where [[Humans Are Special]]-- 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]]. (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.) ''[[
** 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 40000]]'' is set in the [[Grimdark|grim darkness]] of the far future ([[Exactly What It Says
** 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.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Battlefield
* [[Halo]] The main trilogy takes place in 2552.
** Bungie's other FPS trilogy, ''[[Marathon
* [[Metroid]] uses an alternate calendar, but it's pretty obvious.
* [[
* [[
* ''[[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--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
* [[F
* One of the time periods in [[
* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' doesn't have a specific time, but much of it takes place thousands, if not ''Millions'', of years into the future.
* ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
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* ''[[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).
* ''[[
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