We watched Idiocracy (2006) and laughed at the future humans starving to death because they kept pouring Brawndo on their crops ("It's got what plants crave!"). In 2026 in our timeline, the US cancels the finding that CO₂ is a greenhouse gas; Trump's interior secretary says, "it was never a pollutant. Plants need it to grow."
We watched Her (2013) and cringe-laughed at the sensitive intellectual falling in love with his AI personal assistant. In 2026 we have respected practitioners of computer science declaring that they have created artificial life, and by the way, they're code waifus who identify as female.
@grifferz You didn't know it was a documentary?