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7 Ways 'Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century' Predicted The Future

Get ready for a futuristic dose of nostalgia.

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7 Ways 'Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century' Predicted The Future
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In case you’ve been living under a rock, Disney Channel put out some killer made-for-TV movies back in the 90’s and early 00’s. If you’re like me, it doesn’t matter how old you get, if you happen to find one On Demand or on Netflix, you stop, drop, and roll into a blanket burrito to live out the next 90 minutes in pure nostalgic bliss. One of my particular favorites is Zenon Girl of the 21st Century. It’s about a tweenage girl living in the future at a space station facing basic bitch first world problems. She’s constantly getting into trouble and her parents make her live out the rest of her days on Earth with her Aunt as punishment. While on Earth, she discovers that Parker Wyndham, one the station’s leader, wants to upload a computer virus into the space station’s system. If the systems fail, the station will go crashing into Earth. It’s up to young Zenon to stop it because no one believes her (obviously because she’s such a troublemaker). If she doesn’t stop it, then she won’t be able to see her favorite Microbe concert! Throughout the course of the movie, they use gadgets, fashion, and technology of the ‘future’, some of which was spot on.

Facetime

The only difference in Zenon’s ‘Facetime’, there’s no little box for you to look at yourself.

Miley Cyrus’ hairstyle-

You don’t want all that hair in your face when you’re twerking!

Messy buns

Speaking of hairstyles, messy buns are so popular now, whether to get the hair out of your face or because you don’t feel like washing your hair. (Guilty!)

Bright ass leggings

Bright leggings are now a staple for any female that does anything remotely requiring exercise. Yes, shopping at Target counts as exercise.

Another Clinton in office

In the movie, Madam President goes by the name of Chelsea Clinton. Chromosomally they are half right… but hey, we aren’t splitting hairs here.

Songs constantly repeat themselves

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You hate them, you love them, they get stuck in your head

Weird lingo

Zetus Lapetus! You start off saying these new phrases sarcastically, next thing you know you're saying “last night was lit AF, eyebrows on fleek.” ...and you mean it.

There are many ways we have surpassed the predicted technological advances in Zenon Girl of the 21st Century and some we aren’t exactly close to yet (like living on the moon or a space station comfortably). But one thing is for sure, you better believe the second we hear Supernova Girl, we’ll be singing along.

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