Future Histories of our Pasts

Imagine the far off future of - the 1980's. [Link]

Today, as I write this, it’s December of 2011.

I know. Duh. But think about it for a moment in terms of pop culture.

That means we are thirty-six years past 1975… the date of the end of the world in The Omega Man.

We are thirty-two years past 1979… the date of the suspended-animation experiment that put Dylan Hunt to sleep for 154 years in Genesis II.

1982 was the first year of the Seaview‘s regular patrol of the Pacific Ocean, where Admiral Nelson, Captain Crane, and the rest of the crew averted any number of natural disasters, alien invasions, and supernatural menaces that threatened the existence of the human race.

It was back in 1983 that the sub-orbital passenger ship Spindrift was lost in a space anomaly somewhere in mid-flight between Los Angeles and London…

Speaking of space anomalies, 1987 is when Captain Anthony “Buck” Rogers disappeared into one while piloting the shuttle Ranger III.