History PlayingWith / FutureImperfect

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. [[FutureFoodIsArtificial Due to solid food being replaced with a sort of ]][[NondescriptNastyNutritious nourishment paste]][[FutureFoodIsArtificial in the time when Bob lives and found the spoon]], no-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. [[FutureFoodIsArtificial Due to solid food being replaced with a sort of]][[NondescriptNastyNutritious nourishment paste]][[FutureFoodIsArtificial in the time when Bob lives and found the spoon]], no-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. [[FutureFoodIsArtificial Due to solid food being replaced with a sort of]][[NondescriptNastyNutritious nourishment paste]][[FutureFoodIsArtificial in the time when Bob lives and found the spoon]], no-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. [[FutureFoodIsArtificial Due to solid food being replaced with a sort of nourishment paste in the time when Bob lives and found the spoon]], no-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. Due to solid food being replaced with a sort of nourishment paste in the time when Bob lives and found the spoon, no-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

* '''Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. No-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

** Future generations have become dumber, and thus make up explanations to otherwise simple relics.

* '''Double Subverted''': But when they stop doing so, they still turn out to be wildly wrong about the. present.

** The facts are mixed. While there are anachronisms and imprecisions like weapons showing up a decade too late or early advancdd science means they know a few more than natives such as the GeneralRipper's aggeession was from a then unknown side effect of medication or that what was thought was a terrorist attack was [[NotMeThisTime actually caused by a then unknown physics phenomenon that made the culprits look responsible under the current scientific knowledge.]]

* Future generations have become dumber, and thus make up explanations to otherwise simple relics.

* '''Inverted''': People from the past have a perfect idea of what the present day is like due to sheer guesswork.
** The future has a more accurate picture of history than even natives to the timeperiod.

* '''Downplayed''': There are many misconceptions about the present day, but dedicated historians and/or nerds still know what actually happened.

* '''Subverted''': A [[TimeTravel Time Traveller]] goes to the future, and sees this trope, but it turns out that they anticipated her arrival and were just {{Troll}}ing her.

* '''Inverted''': People from the past have a perfect idea of ehat the present day is like due to sheer guesswork.

* '''Zig Zagged''': In the year 3000, everyone is wrong about the present. In 3500, however, time travel means they know all about it. But in 4038, this knowledge is lost due to nuclear warfare. Until it is regained in 12397 once humanity gets back to its previous technolodical state.

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'''Basic Trope''': In a futuristic setting, people who finding lost historical and archaeological artifacts do not fully understand their original meaning.
* '''Played Straight''': Future archaeologist Bob finds a spoon during an excavation. No-one has any idea what it was used for, and the scientific community finally decides it was used for some sort of religious ritual.

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