@futurebird also: might not affect many people, but if you ever need to keep a written record of events during the night when the clocks are turned back an hour, and you need write about something that happened 90 minutes after midnight, how do you distinguish between that and 150 minutes after midnight?
(ok, so maybe i just answered my own question, but how many people are going to think of that instead of writing the ambiguous "1:30 a.m. [local time]"?)
@futurebird maybe it's too basic to say "star trek", but i'm gonna say star trek, bc they're still presenting a vision of the future where there's no racism, no sexism (in more recent iterations), no classism, no poverty; where everyone is cared for (probably in large part because there is no money); where the environment is preserved; where people no longer depend on superstition; where the appreciation of science is popular...
and something like a celebration of competence & coöperation...?