History Main / TheFutureWillBeBetter

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* The Website/ItGetsBetterProject is a series of web videos by LGBT and "straight but not narrow" adults aimed at LGBT youth to promote the message that life will get better, even if it's really tough now. The project is aimed at cutting the suicide rate for LGBT young people.
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-->--'''Rufus''', ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''

* VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': In Serah's time of 5AF, humanity lives in tiny communities that eeke out a living while fighting off monsters. In every timeline after that, humans are doing better. 400AF is nightmarish but once the timeline is changed, a grand soceity has been developed where the greatest problem is slight boredom. Noel comes from a BadFuture but he went back in time to invoke this trope.

* A central premise of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise is that technology and science makes life better. There's no racisim either; humans are finally getting along with each other.

* A central premise of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise is that technology and science makes life better. There's no racisim either; humans are finally getting along with each other. This is among the reasons ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' is a bit of a BaseBreaker, as it leans more towards LuddWasRight.

It could also be more personalized, where the characters we've been following (or at least some of them) can at least look forwards to a better tomorrow.

* In ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' books the original version of Third Earth, which is Earth in the 51st century, is practically perfect. It's an idealistic paradise where the humans are entirely happy, and all of knowledge and history is easily available. However, it becomes much worse once the timeline is changed.
* ''Literature/AndromedaNebula'' is the paramount example of this in the Soviet ScienceFiction literature, and it also [[FollowTheLeader started an enduring trend]] that many later novels followed, e.g. ''Literature/NoonTwentySecondCentury''. Sadly, the process of {{Deconstruction}} began upon this trope almost as soon as it became popular.

* A central premise of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise is that technology and science makes life better. This is among the reasons ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' is a bit of a BaseBreaker, as it leans more towards LuddWasRight.
** Although technically Star Trek is more "the future will get worse before it gets much better", as seen in ''StarTrekFirstContact''.
* In season 4 of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham are always looking forward to their perfect future in which they will raise their daughter and life will be peachy keen. Those who have seen season 5 know their future is quite the opposite...

* See also PepTalkSong

* The "Carousel of Progress" at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] has the song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (which was also [[CoverVersion covered]] by Music/TheyMightBeGiants for ''Film/MeetTheRobinsons'').

--> The future looks bright
--> On that train all graphite and glitter
--> Undersea by rail
--> Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
--> Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.

--> What a beautiful world this will be
--> What a glorious time to be free
* The song "The White Cliffs Of Dover" by Vera Lynn was written and recorded during the Second World War, when Lynn's assuration that ''"tomorrow, when the world is free/ just you wait and see"'' gave many Britons hope that the hardships of the war would be over one day.

" Music/Gorillaz have Clint Eastwood"

* ''"The Miracle"'' by Music/{{Queen}} concludes with the lines: ''"One day you'll see/ a time will come/ when we will all be friends."''

* The "Carousel of Progress" at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] has the song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (which was also [[CoverVersion covered]] by Music/TheyMightBeGiants for ''MeetTheRobinsons'').
* The [[SteelyDan Donald Fagen]] song "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" was named for the International Geophysical Year, a series of international collaborations of scientists from many disciplines that ran from 1957-58. The song captures the Postwar optimism reflected in those times and the promise of wondrous technological marvels to come:

* Music/BobMarley also wrote a lot of songs giving hope for a better future, ''"No Woman, No Cry"'' from ''Music/NattyDread'', being the most famous example, where he comforts a woman with the assuration that ''"everything is going to be alright"''. On the LiveAlbum ''[[Music/LiveBobMarleyAlbum Live]]'' this moment is even greater, because you hear the crowd cheer when he sings that line. ''"Hallelujah Time", "Get Up Stand Up", "Small Axe"'' and ''"Put It On"'' are songs that fall under this trope too. ''Positive Vibration'' on ''Music/RastamanVibration'' also has a positive message.

* Music/BobMarley also wrote a lot of songs giving hope for a better future, ''"No Woman, No Cry"'', being the most famous example, where he comforts a woman with the assuration that ''"everything is going to be alright"''. ''"Hallelujah Time", "Get Up Stand Up", "Small Axe"'' and ''"Put It On"'' also fall in this category.

* The "Carousel of Progress" at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] has the song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (which was also [[CoverVersion covered]] by Music/TheyMightBeGiants for ''MeetTheRobinsons'').
* {{Timbuk 3}}'s song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades", although it's more about the singer's personal future and his plans to get ahead in life.

* ''"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"'' by Frank Zappa from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' sings that there will come ''"a time when everybody who is lonely will be free to sing and dance and love/ there will come a time when every evil that we know will be an evil that we can rise above"'' and ''"even take their clothes off when they dance."''
* ''"The Miracle"'' by Queen concludes with the lines: ''"One day you'll see/ a time will come/ when we will all be friends."''

* ''"Tomorrow Is Mine"'' from the film Film/{{Cabaret}} expresses faith that the future will belong to the protagonist.

* Music/BobMarley has several songs in this vain, ''"No Woman, No Cry"'', being the most famous example, where he comforts a woman with the assuration that ''"everything is going to be alright"''.