This is genius. With cell phones making phone booths obsolete, Fraser McAlpine ponders what outer form the TARDIS would have taken if Dr. Who had started in 2011.
Once youve started messing about with time and space, its only a matter of time (and space) before someone comes along with a bit of an imagination and starts messing about with you. If that isnt a law of impossible astrophysics, it should be.
This gives us the right to start pulling at the threads of reality within all of our favorite science fiction TV shows, and Doctor Who in particular, and ask penetrating What If questions, such as if Doctor Who was starting now, what would the TARDIS look like?
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For the record, my vote would be for the humble 'Wheely Bin' (translation: 'trash can on wheels').
