This is why Cowboy Bebop holds up, and Blade Runner and The Fifth Element, but not a lot of the “futuristic” looking stuff from the 2000s. They understood a simple truth: the future is made out of the past.
i adore cowboy bebop's vision of the future where a space cop who drives a spaceship dresses like a police detective from 1978 pic.twitter.com/nYqINLStXj
— Interro 🏺🔧♨️🏔🔳 (@Interrobang_2) October 14, 2025

Wow cool, I wrote this and then went to sleep, midnight banger.