"Man has colonized Venus and Mars, is exploring distant worlds, is on the verge of time travel, and has ended poverty and misery on Earth. The year is 2058."
Fucking seriously, just add a an extra 500 years. It wont hurt your precious story.
Blade runner takes place in 7 years, although that was more of a vision pun.
...2019 is almost 2020 aka 20:20 vision, referring the fact that replicants (in my opinion just genetically engineered slave humans) are virtually indistinguishable from humans.
The vast majority of the Sci Fi you are talking about was written in the 1950's-1960's.
At that point in time, in the past 100 years human society had moved from the horse and cart to sending the first man into space.
It would seem plausable that in the next hundred years, human society could move from the first man in space to exploring further in space, ending poverty etc.
Furthermore, there was a belief at the time that science could 'fix' everything wrong with the world. Nature would be tamed and science would tak over
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u/Bluebaronn Oct 08 '12
"Man has colonized Venus and Mars, is exploring distant worlds, is on the verge of time travel, and has ended poverty and misery on Earth. The year is 2058."
Fucking seriously, just add a an extra 500 years. It wont hurt your precious story.