The Europol detective Gesicht, a robot, is investigating a possible serial killer who has been targeting both humans and robots. In fact, it might be the best robot story ever told. His work Pluto, which takes on one of the most famous robots of all time, is no exception to the rule. 20th Century Boys turned the superhero genre on its head when a group of childhood friends discover that the cult threatening to take over the world bears eerie similarities to the story they made up as kids. Monster told the story of a doctor who, while trying to fight back against a hospital’s bias in deciding which patients to treat first, inadvertently saves a serial killer and lets the town mayor die. Naoki Urasawa has a knack for turning simple ideas into sprawling manga epics. Follow along as we deep dive into the great unknown. What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction - in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond - to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of extreme uncertainty.
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