Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Writing about the Future has always been about taking current trends and assuming they will continue for decades to extreme levels. One of the current perceived "big problems" in the United States (and the rest of the developed world) is the growing rate of obesity. This is usually played for either comedy (because fat people are still Acceptable Targets) or Body Horror, if not both. Contrast with We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future. Examples of Big Fat Future include: