Two things: some chemicals don’t need oxygen to burn. Some are better oxidizers than oxygen, like fluorine. It’s actually close to impossible to put out a fluorine fire, since you can’t even smother them, and they’ll even burn things like concrete.

Second, for the sounds of explosions, one way it’s explained in some scifi is that the sounds you are hearing are computer extrapolations. Elite Dangerous is a notable example of this explanation.

If you don’t like monopoly, just cheat…

Wait a second…. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254617/monopoly-cheaters-edition

I think Grammarly already can.

I mean, glowing GMO animals have been commercially available for 2 decades, so plants can’t be that much harder.

The effect of EMPs are fairly dramatized by movies, and that can continue into the future no matter how advanced we get.

It certainly won’t happen while human labor is cheaper, even if just in the short term. Companies often only care about profits in the next quarter, CEOs don’t tend to care about the success of another CEO 30 years in the future.

I feel like all these dystopia fetishists think we’re going to do a time jump 100 years into the future, and simply don’t consider anything in the intervening time.

“But a million monkeys on typewriters will eventually write all fanfiction, so why bother?”

~OP

Most athletes are into nutrition. There’s a pretty big overlap of “People willing to try crazy diets to stay fit” and “people willing to try a little bit more.”