Photos and Videos From Tomorrow

Post photos and videos that seem like they were taken in the future.

I run a couple subreddits dedicated to this concept: /r/FuturisticRealism and /r/SliceOfTomorrow, the latter of which is inactive since it's focusing more on the literary side of things and I haven't anything to post yet.
But the former! Oh boy.

NOTE: this media can be from today or yesteryear as well, as long as it seems like it was from tomorrow or you give it a little story.

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Photo of New York with Moon in the background. Notice lights of the heavily automated lunar colonies.
c. 2062


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Dubai skyline. Photo taken by Thomas Galad, 6 October, 2041
Ever since the rise of automated construction, Dubai has pushed the boundaries on the limits of engineering by creating a multitude of starscrapers for only as much money as the original Burj Khalifa. The only pressing issue was how to reinforce the soil.


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Domestic service/utility robot, "Pepper III" by SoftBank Robotics, demonstrates her agile fingers and NLU by using a laptop to browse the internet. She is still a rare sight in homes and businesses. 2029.


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Ad for SoftBank's "SpotMini Commercial Edition", 2022
 
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Street in Barcelona, Spain, 2027



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Apartment robot from 2026 indie flick, Thirty-Three Lives Of A Butterfly, also set in Barcelona, Spain and following two disillusioned yuppies who fall in love


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Knightscopes keeping watch near a playground at night, 2023. The area had become a hotspot of stabbings and drug deals, but the deployment of K5Es and K7s reduced crime by 60%
 
Aerial view of an Ikabot cargo drone flying over a rural town in Arkansas, 2028. Taken by another drone, ironically enough.
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Dubai skyline at night. Photo taken by Thomas Galad, 7 October, 2041
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Dr. Alan Hoshi performing a test of a Trans-Universal Displacement Pod(TUPD) at the California Institute of Technology, New San Francisco Campus, March 16th 2258.
 
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"Life in the Dead Zone"
Former suburban area of Fujian province, China, now ravaged by extreme drought and unnaturally high temperatures followed by a short "super monsoon" deluge late in the year
June 2051
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Dazed and doomed survivors of post-Indo-Pakistani nuclear exchange await help from a nonexistent rescue crew, now believed to be a collective hallucination.
New Delhi, India. 13 April, 2029. Originally, the day was hyped as "Doomsday" due to the close pass-by of the Apophis asteroid, but the news has been completely overshadowed by the horrors in the East
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Two ASIMO units crossing a street on a dreary day in rural Vermont
March 2028
ASIMO was resurrected from the dustbin of history when Honda resumed development of the robot in 2024 and officially unveiled a consumer model at CES 2026
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"Fellow Humans Enjoying The Night"
DeepMind tests out its deep generalized meta-learning network with a bundle of K5 Knightscope robots, sending them out to mingle with the San Francisco nightlife on November 17th, 2023
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"Battle For LA"
Time Magazine's cover for its November 2037 issue detailing the continued Sino-American War and the use of weaponized bionics, autonomous weapons systems (AKA killer robots), and the daily struggles of the people caught behind enemy lines
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Ugandan insurgent during the War of Resistance against Chinese rule, July 2033
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EHang 184 passenger drone flying through Dubai, 2024

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One of Dubai's android police units standing in front of the Burj Khalifa, August 2027

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Vintage flying car

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Old-school style flying car. Notice the gravitomagnetic propulsion barely affecting the leaves beneath. October 1st, 2039
 
Two ASIMO units crossing a street on a dreary day in rural Vermont
March 2028
ASIMO was resurrected from the dustbin of history when Honda resumed development of the robot in 2024 and officially unveiled a consumer model at CES 2026
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That is most definitely Vermont, but it is most definitely not March. May at the earliest.

(Love the concept though.)
 
For all we know in 2028 and considering how "well" our efforts at mitigating climate change are going, that might damn well be January.
 
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Still from the 2031 movie, Shadows in the Dust, adapted from a critically-acclaimed short story cycle of the same name released two years prior. The story follows a recently divorced migrant farmer attempting to wade through interfamily strife while still trying to make ends meet.
 
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