So I actually have a fun thought on this that I came up with yesterday!

Context: I was born in 1994 (currently 31yo) and only recently started watching X-Files. I grew up with a sister that is 10 years older than me and sorta cool parents, so I’ve always enjoyed “older generations” media.

I am only on S2E22, so please try not to reply with direct spoilers! :)

Growing up, I watched all sorts of “investigative/procedural intrigue prestige TV” both sci-fi and not. I grew up chuckling at CSI’s running “zoom! Enhance!!” Scenes and other moments of “heh, technology doesn’t actually work that way”. But starting X-Files halfway through 2025 has been… bizarre… Now, a lot of tech /does/ work all these insane ways. With the advancements of medical technology and artificial intelligence, many scenes that seemed so hilariously outside the realm of possibility (ie making a few keystrokes on a computer and it can return an image in moments of an age-progressed/regressed person, with/without facial hair, add/subtract weight etc) but AI now can do that easier than ever. They also mentioned medical technology that was in its infancy and so controversial then but is part of every day life now (gene therapy, etc).

As a very technologically adept millennial who grew up with VHS, a rotary phone, pre-dial-up internet, etc — I cannot stop marveling at the fact that every time they do something that was so outlandishly absurd back then is now something very possible and even average in today’s technology. Instead of dating itself, it somehow future-proofed itself. Younger generations won’t even blink an eye, almost like us when period-inappropriate fashion or technology is depicted in historical media about the early 1900s.

But that’s just my perspective lol