Exactly. I’m pretty sure I read that the creators (who have done most of the Adult Swim stuff) deliberately chose to mix things up this way. The most obvious thing that sets it in the present day is the presence of Lana, a black, female, secret agent. 'Nuff said!
What, like Rosie Carver?
Had to look that up, but yeah exactly. Although Lana does dress sexily, she’s not a ridiculous, giant afro-sporting, “jive-turkey” spouting, stereotype!
Well, she is a quadroon.
The afro was a wig! It’s part of her cover! That’s how good a secret agent she was! She puts it aside just like the jive-turkey spouting!
“The man who delivered your champagne is not a hotel waiter; I was just trying to be careful. As for Felix Leiter, you’re right: I’ve worked for the CIA down here for some time now. He cabled me you were coming and asked if I would help out if I could.”
ROSIE: Felix told me there’d be moments like this.
JAMES: What did good old Felix suggest?
ROSIE: If all else failed, cyanide pills. I settled for two bedrooms. Good night, Mister Bond.
Another vote for “We’re never gonna know” and “What did they say last episode?” The fact that Krieger has holograms so advanced that the State of New York considers them human places the most recent reference a bit in the future, wouldn’t you say?
Um, there’s also a space station. And bionic legs. And Pam drives modern, Japanese-made drift cars.
And both MOONRAKER and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN were made in the '70s.
Quite true. And didn’t Mallory make some offhand racist remark about a black President in an early episode?
And wrote Mandingo 2 BEFORE Django Unchained.
Seems to me the “right” answer is “now”, but in an alternate timeline.
A much AWESOMER timeline. 
A timeline located in a dimension not of sight and sound, but of mind. A place known as…
…the DANGER ZONE!
Nah, that’s for Navy pilots. Spies get an AWESOME ZONE.
In a slightly darker black tactalneck.
Just like the gypsy woman said.
Sploosh.
And I’ll have to give it my equivalent of sploosh. Which I guess is sploosh. Except with semen.
You’ve gotta stop going to her.
Hmmm, it seems like any Archer or The Princess Bride thread ultimately devolves into quotes. Now let’s go bury this dead hooker.