Is a grim future closer to today or is it farther?

In one of my classes called digital culture, where we look into the history of technological advancements. We just finished a book called “Brave New World” by Aldous Huexly, then the class had to make a movie about how brave new world compares to our world. When you’re talking about a couple of characteristics of a fictional world and then comparing it to our world and describe how it’s similar to it, it’s best to use appeals to time. Appeals to time include favoring the and new improve over the old, and I figure this would work with the project because we are comparing fictional and possible grim future of the world with our world today. And in some cases, we use appeals to the body when we describe the characters that help shape and explore the world. An appeal you want to understand if you want to remain good in the class is the appeals of time, mostly because the concept of the class is learning how technology has affected society over the years and in some activities we also compare other fictional worlds to our in terms of advancements in technology.