* David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series depicts a dystopian future Earth in which almost the entire population lives within several hyperstructures that are thousands of feet tall and span entire continents.

* The James Blish and Normal L. Knight collaboration A Torrent of Faces, set in the future where a trillion people inhabit the Earth, features several semi-enclosed ' cities '— massive buildings big enough to house, entertain and feed hundreds of millions of people.

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

While only Revelation speaks of a period of a thousand years for Christ ’ s rule on Earth, there are numerous other prophecies in both testaments concerning a future age of peace.

Some interpret a literal, future, thousand-year time period in which Christ will rule over the Earth, a time which will be characterized by peace and harmony.

Smith's stories describe a long future history of Earth.

Disc 1 is sung entirely by Eija-Lynn and it is about " a possible future where all the cities on Earth have disappeared under the snow of a centuries long winter.

Autonomous control will enable future spacecraft to operate at greater distances from Earth, and to carry out more sophisticated science-gathering activities in deep space.

The stories of the Dying Earth series are set in the distant future, at a point when the sun is almost exhausted and magic has reasserted itself as a dominant force.

It is very unlikely that non-technological civilizations will be detectable from Earth in the near future.

These future weapons bathed the surviving life of Earth in unspecified forms of radiation and biochemical agents, producing widespread, permanent mutations among humans, animals, and plants.

In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space ( with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points ), and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

Omniscience concerning the past and present ( properly defined relative to Earth ) is not a problem, but some people argue that omniscience regarding the future implies it has been determined, what seems possible only in a deterministic world.

Millennialism ( from millennium, Latin for " thousand years "), or chiliasm in Greek, is a belief held by some Christian denominations that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth in which " Christ will reign " for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state ( the " World to Come " of the New Heavens and New Earth ).

There is another disturbance of the Earth's rotation called polar motion that can be estimated for only a few months into the future because it is influenced by rapidly and unpredictably varying things such as ocean currents, wind systems, and motions in the liquid nickel-iron outer core of the Earth.

Nichiren, on the other hand, confirms that the teachings of the Lotus Sutra will flourish for all eternity, and that the Bodhisattvas of the Earth will propagate Buddhism in the future.

After wrangling about business with Eldritch, Bulero travels to what appears to be Earth at some time in the not-too-distant future.

The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near future, where Earth and its populations have been damaged greatly by nuclear war during World War Terminus.

takes place in the year 1992 ( 2021 in later editions ), projecting 25 years in the future after the author's 1967 writing, after World War Terminus and its radioactive fallout have destroyed most of Earth.

In 1951 Arthur C. Clarke mentioned the Vase as having been rescued by time travelers from the future just before the destruction of the Earth, in his science fiction short story " All the Time in the World.

The collapse will reduce the ability of Earth to support large numbers of humans for a long time into the future.

In the 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, science fiction novel writer Isaac Asimov depicted a future Earth with a largely radioactive crust, humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

The Genius ( mythology ) | genius of Aeneas is shown ascendant, looking into the light of the future, while that of Turnus is setting, shrouded in darkness.

The lands given St. Bruno in 1003 were in the region shown on left bank of the Oder, Hither Pomerania along the coast, or the future Margraviate of Brandenburg to its south.

However, the rebellion of Tacfarinas had shown how exposed Africa Proconsularis was to its west and how the Mauretanian client kings were unable to provide protection to the province, and it is thus possible that Caligula's expansion was a prudent response to potential future threats.

If, in some future experiment, one of the mass-related phenomena is shown to not be proportional to the others, then that specific phenomenon will no longer be considered a part of the abstract concept of mass.

It has been shown to be possible to travel through time without creating a new alternative universe, instead altering events in the future, but this seems to have devastating and very far-reaching repercussions, as depicted in Marvel 1602 ( it almost destroyed the whole multiverse, including the afterlife ).

In the series finale, an alternate future timeline is shown where he has chosen the name " Joe.

In " All Good Things ...", the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek: Generations, and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship.

David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein Fawr c. 930, a popular prophetic poem in which the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English ; A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (" And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ").

The IPCC has broken down current and future impacts of climate change into a range of " key vulnerabilities ", e. g., impacts affecting food supply, as well as five " reasons for concern ", shown opposite.

* Heroes: A possible future shown in Out of Time features the Shanti virus killing about 93 % of the world's population by 2008.

Nephi is shown many past and future events, including the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.

He was elected partly because a large part of the Swedish Army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was also very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the recent war with Denmark.

When comparing the predicted expansion rate of the universe as given by the tracker solutions with cosmological data, a main feature of tracker solutions is that one needs four parameters to properly describe the behavior of their equation of state, whereas it has been shown that at most a two-parameter model can optimally be constrained by mid-term future data ( horizon 2015-2020 ).

Eugenics is shown as the wave of the future, and yet it is a eugenics that explicitly rejects racism, and can be reconciled with Heinlein's strongly held belief in cultural relativism.

In the 2002 film The Time Machine, this scenario is shown where the main character builds a time machine to save his fiance from being killed by a mugger, only for her to die in a car crash instead ; as he learns from a trip to the future, he cannot save her with the machine or he would never have been inspired to build the machine so that he could go back and save her in the first place.

* The Simpsons episode " Future-Drama " is set in this year since it aired in 2005 as the Simpsons siblings, Bart and Lisa, are shown where they will be eight years into the future.

At this point the lower border of the tapestry shows a fleet of ghost-like ships thus hinting at a future invasion .< sup >( scene 33 )</ sup > The news of Harold's coronation is taken to Normandy, whereupon we are told that William is ordering a fleet of ships to be built although it is Bishop Odo shown issuing the instructions .< sup >( scene 35 )</ sup > The invaders reach England, and land unopposed.

The importance of naval bases in the Canaries and Morocco to Germany is shown by the fact that the Germans passed up their best chance of bringing Spain into the war rather than give up their demands for bases in and off north-west Africa, which were intended to support the Kriegsmarine in a future war with the United States.

Sweetscent is shown footage of a healthier, younger Molinari in uniform and is led to believe that an android look-alike of the President has been created for public appearances, a notion that does not account for the fact that there is at least one other Molinari on the premises, a bullet-ridden corpse that is being preserved for use in the event of certain possible future developments.

In the episode's epilogue, Sam is shown to have returned to Beth, appearing to her as himself, assuring her that Al is safe and will return to her ; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future, while Sam never returns to the future.

Locking in a future price puts the purchaser " first in line " for delivery even though the contract will, as it matures, converge on the spot price as shown in the graph.

Study of weather patterns and other physical phenomena in the 20th century has shown that very minor changes in conditions at time T have drastic effects at all times after T. Compare this to the romantic involvement of future childbearing partners.

He has also mastered astrology to the point where he can use it to accurately predict the future, and has been shown to be capable of time travel.