History Main / TwentyMinutesIntotheFuture

* The ''Anime/{{Moldiver}}'' OVA, which premiered in 1993, is explicitly set in 2045.

* ''Taken'' by Edward Bloor takes place sometime in the 2050s. The date is never specified, but it is hinted at by characters mentioning the recent 100 year anniversary of ''Series/ILoveLucy''. The major differences are that indentured servitude is legal, the ultrarich live in extremely gated communities, and it is common for the children of the ultra rich to be kidnapped for ransoms.

* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' begins with a nuclear explosion in 1988 that sets off WorldWarIII. (In fact, the date of the explosion given in the movie, 1988.07.16, was the date the movie premièred.)

* The ''Manga/AstroBoy'' manga, original publication 1951, had the titular robot boy being created on April 7, 2003, a time in which robots and {{flying car}}s were routine. When that date rolled around, the flying cars and robots were absent, but we did get a new television series, first broadcast on that exact date in Japan. At the very least, the Japanese government granted full citizenship to Astro Boy.

* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'' (released in 1979) takes place in 1995, and is set in a BadFuture where an AlienInvasion successfully leaves Earth in ruins. Humanity has been forced to kneel to the Zaal Empire, but when it's found that another group of aliens devastated by the Zaal, the Heliosians, arrived to Earth as refugees brought their SchizoTech SuperRobot with them, our main character, Kento, takes the helm to even the score.

[-[[caption-width-right:350:Cars, elevated trains, pedestrians, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers robots]], a typical city scene.]]-]

This trope has a close relative in NextSundayAD, which is completely indistinguishable from the present, but claims to be happening in the future anyway ([[LampshadeHanging Yes]], that [[NonIndicativeName should be the other way around]]. No, it won't be fixed.). How much AppliedPhlebotinum it takes to flip NextSundayAD into full-scale Twenty Minutes into the Future is an interesting question, since many stories employing cutting-edge fictional technology are actually set in the ''present'' (for instance, lots of superhero stories). Can result in IWantMyJetpack if the writers set the work not sufficiently far into the future, and the year the work was set in arrives in RealLife without any of the new technology featured. See also FutureSocietyPresentValues, when the distant future ''looks'' as futuristic as you'd expect, but still clings to the culture, politics and attitudes of the present day.

UrbanFantasy is the magical version. If you want to know a more "reversed" version of this trope (futuristic technology in the past), see SchizoTech. {{Inverted|trope}} by TwentyMinutesIntoThePast.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E20Elegy Elegy]]", Professor Kurt Meyers tells Jeremy Wickwire that Earth was devastated by a nuclear war in 1985 and it has taken 200 years for humanity to rebuild. It is also mentioned that the cemetery asteroid Happy Glades was established in 1973.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E108DeathShip Death Ship]]", the spaceship E-89 lands on the thirteenth planet of Star System 51 to investigate the feasibility of establishing a colony in 1997.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", the Earth ship Pilgrim I containing 113 people landed on the planet V9-Gamma in August 1991. A ship arrives to bring the impoverished survivors back to Earth in 2021.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E122Steel Steel]]", it is mentioned that boxing matches between human fighters were banned in 1968 and that the sport came to be dominated by robots. The episode takes place on August 2, 1974.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E127TheOldManInTheCave The Old Man in the Cave]]", a nuclear war devastated Earth in 1964. Millions of people were killed and [[PollutedWasteland the world is contaminated with radiation]]. The episode takes place ten years AfterTheEnd in 1974.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E135TheLongMorrow The Long Morrow]]", the astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield embarks on a 40 year round trip mission to a solar system 141 lightyears from Earth on December 31, 1987.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", the opening narration gives the date as 2000 "for want of a better estimate." It takes place in a world where people undergo surgery called the Transformation at 18 years old to make them look like everyone else.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E153TheBrainCenterAtWhipples The Brain Center at Whipple's]]", Wallace V. Whipple replaces the workers at his factory with an automatic assembly machine called the [=X109B14=] in 1967.

** In "Quarantine", Matthew Foreman entered [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] on June 18, 2023 in the hope that his cancer could be cured in the future. After being revived in 2347, he learns that 80% of Earth's population were wiped out in a [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] in 2043.
** In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the United States is experiencing a major economic depression in 1999. Unemployment is at 32%.
** "Father & Son Game" takes place at some point after the early 1990s, by which time [[BrainUploading a person's consciousness]] can be placed in a {{Cyborg}} body. Interactive touch screen, speaking computers are commonplace.

* ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' takes place in 2080, with technologically advanced buildings, transport, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick an oppressive government that plans to erase everyone's emotions with artificial rain.]] However, Ajik City's society is mostly the same as in the present, while all items made before 2000 are considered to have archaeological value.

This is often [[FutureSocietyPresentValues a linear extrapolation of national malaise or existing crises]], so American works of the 1970s have [[UrbanHellscape endlessly skyrocketing crime and inner urban decay]] [[note]] true enough in places like Detroit, Michigan, but wildly wrong in general; cities like NYC are safer today than ever before [[/note]] whereas the 1980s brought the notion that {{Mega Corp}}s and [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan]] (especially [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Japanese megacorps]]) would rule the world. When the 1990s came around, the US economy recovered while the Japanese economy tanked; end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and subsequent collapse of many authoritarian communist regimes drastically changed the political picture of both the present and the future. Instead of criminal anarchy or corporate governance, there's a lot more focus on how technology has come to permeate everyday life and challenge long-held conceptions of the individual and society as a whole. Works in the 1990s naturally assumed that from that point on the only murderous enemies Americans would have to worry about would be the odd RightWingMilitiaFanatic, [[TeensAreMonsters homicidal teenagers]], and maybe the occasional petty dictator, [[HarsherInHindsight but no one else]]. With the TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens, the issue seems to have become extreme Right-Wing dystopias and/or endless American Interventionism in the Middle East and Central Asia, occasionally spreading into South America, Africa, or Southeast Asia.

* Implicit in the 2010 ''Film/TheATeam'', where the "crime they didn't commit" takes place during the supposed final US withdrawal from Iraq and the [=UCAVs=] that attack the team's plane are namechecked as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper Reapers,]] which don't as of RealLife 2010 have support for air-to-air missiles or cannon yet.

* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' is set roughly ten years in the future, and while styles in clothing and automobiles seem more or less unchanged from the present, exotic (but semi-plausible) technologies like PoweredArmor, {{Energy Weapon}}s, {{Invisibility Cloak}}s and metal-eating {{Nanomachines}} are out in full force. Since the film is believed to be in a SharedUniverse with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' series, one can assume that this futuristic technology was [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum reverse engineered from Cybertronian technology]]. The fact that G.I. Joe is in the "near future" could be taken to mean that the Autobot-Decepticon conflict is already over, or at least no longer set on Earth. It could also be taken to mean that the Autobots have either repaired or helped to repair the damage done to the pyramids in Giza by Devastator in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', during the ten-year gap between both movies, as ''Revenge of the Fallen'' is set in 2009.

* While ''Film/JasonX'' (2001) mostly takes place in the far future of 2455, the opening scene takes place in 2010, where there exists the technology to cryogenically freeze Jason and the main heroine for 400 years.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', released in 2000, is set in 2052 and features some impressive -- but not ''too'' out-there -- advances in computer science (artificial intelligence), genetics (engineered mutant species), robotics (commercially used security robots) and, most importantly, [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotechnology]]. One of the game's plot points is the nanotechnologically augmented, super-powered protagonist who replaces the old {{cyborg}} augments. There's also mention of mining operations on the moon.

* ''Film/BicentennialMan'': In a [[AdaptationDeviation change]] from "Literature/TheBicentennialMan" starting TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Andrew first shows up in "[[TitleIn the not too distant future...]]" (which the 1999 trailer and the climax identify as "2005"). No mention of the original story's BanOnAI ever takes place. However, the story still takes place over [[GenerationalSaga two hundred years and four generations of Martins]], so it doesn't stay "Next Sunday" for very long.

%%Moved to NextSundayAD* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' live action TV movie ''Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner'' takes place thirteen years after the series, which apparently takes place in TheNewTens [[ComicBookTime nowadays]], setting it somewhere in the 2020s. Nothing really seems out of the ordinary for the early 2010s.

* ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' takes place in 2080, with technologically advanced buildings, transport, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick an oppressive government that plans to erase everyone's memories with artificial rain.]] However, Ajik City's society is mostly the same as in the present, while all items made before 2000 are considered to have archaeological value.

** The entire MCU did a TimeSkip in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' from 2018 to 2023, meaning all movies that aren't explicitly set in prior periods are now in the near-future. Which doesn't look too different from the present aside from [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the cool tech the superheroes don't share with the general populace]]. Though there is a HandWave: half the population was wiped out in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', leading to much chaos and depression (''Endgame'' even starts the 2023 part in a deserted, dark and murky New York City where sad people reminisce lost things such as MLB), and society could only go back to normal and seek progress when the "snapped" were brought back in ''Endgame''.

* The "present-day" of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' is set in the far-off future of 1999. From what little we see of the future during the series, cars are more streamlined and can go faster, electric cars have their own lanes, some cars have holographic displays and tracking devices, prostitution is legal, and women wear clothing that lights up. But firearms, military uniforms, and congressional committees haven't changed. Guess Beckett altered history more than Al or Ziggy expected him to...
** The late 1990s were chosen most likely because Bellisario wanted to keep the time-travelling within Sam's lifetime, but also within the audience's past. Therefore, the show's "present" needed to be futuristic, but couldn't be too far in the future.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': The episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E13TheDuplicateMan The Duplicate Man]]", filmed in 1964, is set in 2025, when space travel is common, {{cloning|Blues}} has been outlawed and statues of alien lifeforms are exhibited in a museum. The smaller changes from the present are also interesting: future tech includes {{Video Phone}}s (with rotary dials!) and light-activated drinking fountains, and the protagonist wears an early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]]-style collarless suit and drives a CoolCar that's actually [[http://wearecontrollingtransmission.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-wheels-chemospheres-chromoites.html a customized Buick Riviera]] created for the film ''For Those Who Think Young''.

* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', the only futuristic technology seems to be the technology to enter another person's dreamscape, but that is only used by a small number of people, and used ''constructively'' by a ''very'' small number of people. We get a brief glimpse of an "opium cave" where people go to have shared dreams in Mombasa -- this pretty strongly implies that it's illegal, and if it is, it probably has a fair deal of recreational use in the Western world as well.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' movie ''Recap/StewieGriffinTheUntoldStory'' when present-Stewie and future-Stewie travel 30 years to the future and present-Stewie remarks that nothing seems different. Future-Stewie replies "Well, it's been only thirty years". They ''do'' have time-tourism and present-Stewie expected to be emperor of the world by that time. Presumably, he'd have made some changes.

* Creator/JamesPHogan's ''Literature/GiantsSeries'' is based in the 2030s (it has a character born in 1984 who is 40-something at the time of the events of the novel). The series has mankind going from weaponized to no weapons somewhere around 2020 and having manned missions as far out as Jupiter. [[spoiler:The remains of aliens (or our ancestors anyway)]] are discovered on the Moon, [[spoiler:real aliens]] are found on one of the moons of Jupiter, and [[spoiler:more aliens show up and later suffer from FishOutOfTemporalWater with their own race due to their mode of transportation]].

** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' intro implied it took place in a close future, in which mankind was able to build space colonies with interstellar travel capacities. Next series, ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', had a crossover which took place after ''Galaxy'' ending, and Earth technology could build Zords, so it was reasonable to assume it took place in the future. However, it was retconned as happening in current time due to crossover with Time Force (which took place in 2001 despite Rangers coming ''from'' the future)

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Though it obviously takes place on a non-Earth world, its dinosaurs did die in 65,000,000 B.C., making it clear that it was somewhat Earth-like. In its version of 1999, mankind lives in domes with air fortresses and sentient robots. This one is obviously on purpose, considering that A.D. 1000 corresponds roughly to modern times, and A.D. 600 to medieval times.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}},'' the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' originally released in 1994, states that mankind's first fully functional space colony would be launched in 2010.