Natural City is a Korean movie about a police officer, R, who is in charge of hunting down cyborgs on the run. All cyborgs are given three years to live, but black markets have made it possible to turn their minds into real people and, therefore, extend their lives. Even as R is hunting down robots attempting this illegal method of extending their life, he’s debating using the method on his own cyborg, Ria, who is near the end of her three-year lifespan.

French postcard depicting education in 2000 (Jean Marc Cote, 1901)

The 2000s brought about a variety of staple sci-fi TV shows that lacked massive budgets but included captivating character-driven stories.

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There were four books in Usborne’s The World of the Future series: Future Cities, The Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond, Star Travel, and Robots. All of them were…