Today: Tomorrow's Yesterday
Today will be back tomorrow...
Let's face it: For most of us, the year 2000 had been a giant disappointment. All of the things promised to us in the decades before were nowhere to be seen: There were no cities on the moon, no mentally unstable computers like HAL, no helpful household robots, and worst of all: no Soylent Green. And where the heck is my flying car, anyway?
The future used to be a wonderful and sterile place. It was a place where people were dressed in jump suits that were both sexy and practical. They were living in houses that looked like flying saucers, communicating via telepathy, getting their lunch by the push of a button... But this future is now a thing of the past.
Sure, instead, we've got some things nobody could have dreamt of thirty years ago: mobile phones with more computing power than a voyager space probe or the unspeakable joys and dark thrills of American Idol, to name just two. It's hard to say, whether the future people dreamt up decades ago is better or worse than reality. One thing is for sure, though: it's definitely different.
There's not even anything really new to all of this, either. Only human beings (and maybe some bonobos) are planning for the future and painting pictures of tomorrow in their heads. We are planning tomorrow's dinner, preparing a short trip, making plans for next year - and in the end, nothing turns out as planned. Suddenly, the Berlin Wall is gone, the Mediterranean is not sealed of by a giant dam and Mc Donalds cancelled the Mc Rib Sandwich once again. Something has happened. Somebody changed her mind.
There are lots of visions of the futures in shorts and they are concerning all aspects of life, including science, religion, politics and social issues of all scales. In this programme several utopias of the past are being presented, allowing us a look at the thoughts and ideas of the past while we are exploring mankind's unique ability of dreaming up the future.
