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marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know this is how people in the 80s and 90 imagined the future
Hum… It’s an adaptation of a dumbed-down adaptation from how people in the 60s imagined the future.
The 80’s scifi was mostly dominated by cyberpunk, that is completely different.
Countess425@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I call TNG “Adult Contemporary Futurism”
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That describes the TOS better. TNG was clearly retrograde futurism when it was launched.
That said, TOS was also a bit retrograde, because people were crazy about robots, huge computers, and virtualized worlds by the 60s.
Countess425@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, it’s TNG because of all the purple sparkly stuff, big hair, and jazz music. It’s very representative of late 80s early 90s adult contemporary aesthetic, which makes sense because that’s when it’s from. TOS is some other kind of retro fruturism.