Max Headroom

By having everything in Max Headroom reported twenty minutes into the future, it sends the message that society is on the cusp of the dessolate state depicted in the show. The show's setting is deprived of an outdoor setting with vegitation because the natural materials have been neglected because people are too occupied being inundated with media. The media don't care if people are exploding from their masses of information as long as their messages are resulting in money from automatistic drones.