In a segment that lasts three minutes and fifteen seconds and contains only three shots, the main character ( Alex de Large ) is followed as he walks the length of a futuristic record store, meets two young ladies, and brings them back to his ( parents ') house for sex.

Altern-8 was formed in Stafford in 1990, as a side project to the already successful Nexus 21 ( a name chosen because of its " futuristic house sound "), when both members were aged 21.

For example, in Ray Bradbury's " There Will Come Soft Rains ," he describes a futuristic " smart house " in a post-nuclear-war time period.

Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three, May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed " techno " by Atkins.

The Skyway series traces the adventures of Jake McGraw, who drives a futuristic cargo truck on the Skyway.

The futuristic design aesthetic of the early 20th century tends to solid colors, streamlined shapes, and mammoth scales.

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

* The game Brink is set on a futuristic arcology to preserve humanity after a natural flooding disaster.

Abra Kadabra is the name of a DC Comics villain, who originally uses futuristic technology to create effects that appear magic to present-day people, and later gains actual magic powers.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

In the film, a survivor of a futuristic third World War is obsessed with a distant and disconnected memories of a pier at the Orly Airport, the image of a mysterious woman, and a man's death.

The technology is a mixture of the futuristic ( cybernetics, jump gates, energy weapons ) and the modern ( wheeled cars, handguns, zippo-styled lighters ), both of which are blended together.

Similarly science fiction is another key influence, not only in the spaceship and the futuristic setting but also in several direct and indirect ways.

The building is unique due to its very futuristic design, resembling a landed flying saucer.

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9.

When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, " An Experiment in Prophecy ", and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work.

* 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks.

It is also revealed that the destruction wrought by the Ancients ' wars with the Kreegan is the reason why the worlds of Might & Magic exist as medieval fantasy settings despite once being seeded with futuristic technology-the worlds have been ' cut off ' from the Ancients and descended into barbarism.

Whilst on the surface the new Potsdamer Platz appears so far to have lived up to its expectations as a futuristic centre of commerce at the heart of Europe's youngest capital city, there has been much debate as to just how successful it really is.

At the start of each episode, the player is deployed in a futuristic military base and he has to find a slipgate that will take him to the alternate realm.

This is mainly due to a last-minute mix of two different game designs: lead level designer John Romero wanted to make a dark fantasy beat ' em up / RPG hybrid game, while level designers Tim Willits and American McGee wanted to make a more futuristic, Doom-like game.

R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a " Arrowhead ", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the ' R ' series of fighter craft ( but it is the first of the series to actually be used in combat ; the previous models were all prototypes ).

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible ( or at least non-supernatural ) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities.

* Technology that is futuristic ( e. g., ray guns, teleportation machines, humanoid computers ).

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

The song is about a dystopian futuristic society in which the arts, particularly music, have been suppressed by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

* The Billion Dollar Boy by Charles Sheffield is a retelling of Captains Courageous in a futuristic science fiction setting.

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

" In addition, the modern architecture that is also found in Berlin, emphasizes the futuristic and stolid appearance of the city state of Libria.

It might be said that 20th century futuristic vision found its ultimate expression in the development of Googie or Populuxe design.

There are also full-page mock advertisements marketing futuristic products ( such as Brain Slugs ), which parody the kinds of coupon offers found in other comic books.

Examples of hover cars can be found in science fiction films or television series such as Star Wars and Blade Runner and, and in futuristic racing video games, such as the F-Zero, and wipEout series.

An example of a futuristic Natural Language Interface can be found throughout the Star Trek series, where characters simply tell the computer what they want using ordinary English.

( Gibson produced some 32 "- scale Explorer basses in the 1980s, including one model that featured a futuristic piezo pickup in place of the traditional pickups found on the other models )

He often found himself out of his depth in futuristic and alien settings, but was always loyal to the Doctor and was the longest serving companion in the novels ( 55 novels to date ).

Valve also thought that the use of a monastery would help provide a starker contrast between old human architecture and futuristic Combine technology found within it.

A futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner.

* Scott utilises cityscapes as an emphasis to his storytelling ( e. g., a futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner, Osaka in Black Rain, Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven ).

Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

" Don Guzman of the Los Angeles Times admired the novel for its suspense, wisdom, and beauty, and compared Clarke's role as a writer to that of an artist, " a master of sonorous language, a painter of pictures in futuristic colours, a Chesley Bonestell with words ".

Hiro, along with partners Superfly Johnson and Mikiko Ebihara, attempts to recover the Daikatana and return the Earth to the way its meant to be, travelling to ancient Greece, medieval Norway, near future Los Angeles and futuristic Tokyo in the process.

In the 1973 film Sleeper by Woody Allen, the scenes of the futuristic cars driving were filmed in the Los Angeles River wash that runs through Balboa Park near White Oak.

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside.

Although Los Angeles and the West Coast have been treated as a futuristic concept geographic region by different names in other works — " Los Andiegoles " in the novel A Friend of the Earth, " Rattown " in the novel Dr. Adder, and " Mega City 2 " in the movie Judge Dredd — San Angeles remains the more popular identifying description.

The film was set in a futuristic Los Angeles, and Philips expected to use the film to showcase their emerging technology.