>>113793623Depends on who you ask.
Viacom has firmly stated a few times in press releases and their twitter that this is an alternate future.
Show's showrunner has said it's not an alternate future.
So who do you go with, the guy that wrote the show, or the people that hired the guy to write the show? And just to muddy the waters, he was part of a staff of writers, not all of whom were on board with everything he did.