Basic Trope: In a setting 20 Minutes into the Future or further, humans have developed some sort of psychic abilities.
- Straight: Alice and Bob time travel to the year 2100. When they get there, people are routinely using telekinesis.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob time travel to the year 2040. When they get there, everyone is connected in what is effectively a psionic Internet.
- Downplayed: In 2100, humans are just beginning to research psionics as a real field of science.
- Justified:
- There were always psychic humans, it just wouldn't be until a date in the future that we discovered solid evidence of them.
- Humanity's psychic potential comes from a Mass Super-Empowering Event.
- Inverted:
- We had psychic powers in the past, but have lost them by the present.
- Humans came into conflict with a psychic species in 2050, and we have widespread technological Psychic Block Defense methods by 2100.
- Subverted: It looks like someone is levitating an object with their mind, but it's just an advanced drone...
- Double Subverted: ...a drone without a remote-control mechanism, piloted by the user's psychic powers.
- Parodied: In 2100, bending spoons is a popular trend and that's the extent of human psychic powers.
- Zig-Zagged: By 2100, humans are using... something much more powerful than what we have now. It could be psychic powers, it could be Sufficiently Advanced Technology, it could be something else entirely, but someone from the early 2000s wouldn't be able to tell.
- Averted: Human brainpower stays the same between now and 2100.
- Lampshaded: "...why would we develop psychic powers and not continue working on advanced tech?"
- Invoked: An already-psychic species grants humans the secrets of psionics to help us further advance our society.
- Exploited: By 2100,
- Defied: Humans have actively shunned the very idea that psychic powers could be real even though they do exist in this universe.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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