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Top 10 Films That Eerily Predicted The Future
Many memorable, classic and contemporary movies are set in the future, but some of the advanced technologies they feature eventually, amazingly, became realities in our world. Here are just ten examples.
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10. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Top 10 Movies That Predicted The Future
This movie is based on the mystery novel of the same name written by Phillip K. Dick. It tackles the issue of sinister monitoring of the civilian population. Characters in the movie are forced to wear “scramble suits” to hide their real identities. This results in the unstable nature of self throughout the entire movie. Thee movie is very creepy in that it makes you question the people you can trust.
Although scramble suits do not exist yet, surveillance certainly does. Edward Snowden made a career for himself by tattle tailing on the National Security Agency (NSA). In 2013, he brought to our attention that the NSA was pretty much monitoring everything we do. He also argued that they have access to our email accounts, phone records and internet activity. The countries named in his allegations were the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
9. Minority Report (2002)
Top 10 Films That Predicted The Future
The film was set in the year 2054. Although we are not at that year yet, many of the prophecies this Tom Cruise movie made have come true. The film was a sci-fi murder mystery directed by Steven Spielberg.
One technology that is of pertinence to this article was the spatial operating environment used by Cruise’s character to interfere with his computer. With a wave, pinch or spin of a hand, video play and files opened on his wallet size screen. Viewers were delighted to see this because at the time they were tied down to the physical mouse and keyboard.
Fast forward 8 years later, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Kinect. The Xbox Kinect was designed for gamers to interact with their console through body movement and voice commands. The human was the controller just like in the movie.
8. Robocop (1987)
Top Ten Movies That Predicted The Future
I still remember when the Robocop first came out. It was my favourite crime-fighting human-turned android of the 1980s. Even as we advanced in technology, ethical and moral boundaries made it very hard for scientists to merge men with machines.
We don’t need to think far ahead to see Robocop in reality. Prosthetic limbs have made huge strides in both aesthetics and functions. Legs can be replaced with blades to run and neurological mapping creates more nimble and skilled replacement fingers each year. The Lockheed Martin HULC and Raytheon XOS are two skeletons designed to develop soldiers with super strength. Although they are not where we want them to be, the future is still infinite and I am certain that things will improve in the next few years.
7. Gattaca (1997)
Top Ten Films that Predicted the Future
This 1997 film believed that we will be soon living in an age where scientists can genetically manipulate oocytes. We are finally seeing this because now parents with enough money can decide on the sex and choose the traits of their children and exclude the ones that they don’t want. I find this film very difficult to watch and to pass judgement. It delivered great character and a well-written dialogue and one of the most engaging plots of the late 1990s. Philosophically, it is very easy to toss the movie in the garbage can. Its take on human determinism can only be delved into so far by viewers. I strongly believe that the film went a bit overboard on the topic.
6. Frankenstein (1931)
Top 10 Movies That Predicted The Future
No one has yet discovered the Fountain of Youth or how to give life to death as we saw in the film “Frankenstein”. The movie monster was a patchwork of pieced-together body parts. In the modern times, this equates to organ transplant and how it is now quite commonplace. Taking this a step further, scientists are now routinely extending our life with artificially created body parts.
One such group of scientists belongs to the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. It was recently awarded $34.5 million for its effort to use its technologies to create a prosthetic arm that would by far differ from the WWII era hook and cable device used by most amputees.
5. Total Recall (1990)
Top 10 Films That Predicted The Future
Total Recall is a story about false memories implanted to escape from the ordinary. So instead of flying to The Bahamas and having a time of your life, you basically just buy the memory of having gone there for a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately in the film it all goes wrong and the adventure ensues as the main character battles to differentiate real memories from the fake.
In real life, memory implants are becoming more and more of a fact. The New York Times once reported that scientists were doing experiments on mice where the former were able to implant false memories on the latter. All they had to do was insert a micro-processing chip into the brain in order to enhance the memory. In another instance, mice were give a drug which caused them to remember events that did not actually take place.
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