Lucy travels through time to view the Earth at various periods in the past. As she travels, the setting behind her gradually changes in a timelapse. She visits the dinosaurs and eventually meets Lucy the Australopithecus.
Inventor Alexander Hartdegen travels 800,000 years into the future. As he travels through time, the landscape changes and develops into more complex and sophisticated terrain.
Wall-E observes the effects of technological advances on society. The citizens enjoy many conveniences, and as a result live an easy, yet dystopic, existence.