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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9698090" data-attributes="member: 78087">Rewatched Past Tense this evening, the first time in nearly thirty years. And it’s held up very well - and it’s impressively prescient to the point of being depressing about current events. No, we don’t know how we let things get so bad, but we undoubtedly have.The two main things the story doesn’t get right are basically the same thing - the writers were in the early years of the Internet and so couldn’t understand how universal and infiltrated into everything we do it would become. So the Internet of 2024 in Past Tense is basically a version of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext" target="_blank">teletext</a> information service like Ceefax, with text and channels, with video phone capacity, rather than what it actually is like in our era. This also means that if Sanctuary Districts existed now (and honestly they’re rather altruistic compared to what homeless services look like in the US and elsewhere) then we would already all know about them thanks to the Internet and social media. We would already be polarised in our opinions about them, and the Bell Riots would probably therefore not be the wake up moment they were in the Star Trek timeline.</blockquote>