Futurama Reaction Paper

 The great thing about being cryogenically frozen on New Year's Eve when your life sucks is --boom! you wake up in The Future. Well, Phillip Fry just, technically, slept through at least two alien invasions within 1000 years. The alien invasions demolished old buildings and earthlings just built new ones. They found new societies whose towers we see being built and destroyed. Devastation and development followed each other. Just like in sci-fi novels, but with a ray of hope that humans will somehow re-build and improve what once was. To a certain degree, this shows humanity's core greatness, that is, we thrive after we survive.

Is the Future just like in Star Trek? For the most part, yes. The technology has advanced, and so do the system of living. They have a strict way of being in a "permanent" job where one's place in the social structure is determined by other people. "You gotta do what you gotta do." It sounds just like what we have now: bureaucracy.

The planet is not only "peopled" by people but also by robots and aliens like Bender and Leela. Fry's initial pleasure when he discovers that he is in the future is also sprinkled with stupidity (actually it's more like Fry's confusion and ignorance), and loneliness. Being in the future with all its rockets and telepads do not guarantee us of happiness, after all. 

It seems like there are more and more miserable (not to mention impatient) folks, too. Heck, they even have suicide booths! And telepads that land next to suicide booths!

It's quite nifty, actually. They even have a choice between "quick and painless" and "slow and horrible". Ha! The thing is, the future may have fulfilled Fry's dreams of authentic space gizmos but the future still has semblance to what we have today. Work, capitalists, pain and death still remain. And Fry resumes his job as a delivery boy.