Sci-Fi Movies That Aren’t Sci-Fi Anymore
I love science fiction films for many reasons, but the biggest draw is, of course, that science fiction speculates on the way science and technology will change the world. Sometimes it is a prediction of how the technology that exists will certainly be able to change things. Other times, technology itself is the product of pure imagination.
However, here in the real world, scientists and engineers never sleep, and sometimes it is science fiction itself that inspires them. Thanks to so much progress in recent decades, some films that have been as recently as the 1980s have now been made, at least in part.
This is not a classified list of films, but simply a list of personal favorites who, I think, have at least certain elements that have left the world of fiction, and are now a reality.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Year of exit |
1968 |
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Execution time |
2 hours 29 minutes |
It didn’t take long to 2001: A Space Odyssey To at least partially take out the kingdom of science fiction. It happened the year after the film’s release! As soon as Neil Armstrong set foot on Luna, the film did not seem so eccentric! During the decades that followed, we have crossed other milestones, although 2001 is far in the rear view mirror, and we certainly did not hit them all.
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One of the main stars of the film, Hal9000, has only recently started to feel like a reality in our world. Modern AI chatbots like Chatgpt can talk to us and understand what we say. He can look at the world through a lens of the camera and give meaning. Although we have no idea if or when we will realize a real sensitive AI, there is no reason to think that Hal 9000 in the film was sensitive at all, and the best Systems of IA of today do not feel so far.
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Another element that is realized now is that AI systems will have to make life or death decisions, just as Hal did in the film when the mission was threatened. Whether it is a military system or simply an autonomous car, at some point, a computer program will have to decide who lives and that dies – Sary stuff!
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Her
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Year of exit |
2013 |
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Execution time |
2 hours 6 minutes |
It’s a film that strikes very Differently in the 2020s against when he was released in 2013. Spike Jonze’s film on a guy who fell in love with the vocal assistant on his phone, it was absolutely like a distant science fiction when she got out, but now it happens. There are many stories on the web on people who build friendships and romantic relationships with AI software.
What it means in the long term is the assumption of anyone, but I only see this kind of thing becoming more common. This could help the so-called loneliness epidemic, or it could harm people psychologically, but only time will say.
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Gattaca
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Year of exit |
1997 |
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Execution time |
1 hour 46 minutes |
When Gattaca was released in 1997, the idea that anyone could analyze his DNA was ridiculous. It was too expensive and what would you even do with the information? Today, you can send a sample to a company that will profile your DNA for a few hundred dollars, and tell you more about yourself than you probably didn’t want it.
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We are not quite to the point where our social opportunities are determined by our genes, but I am quite confident that genetics will play a much more important role in our lives which take place during this century than ever. Gattaca does not tackle the idea of genetic engineering much, but we could in fact spend a lot of time editing the genes of people who have already been born and our children, which could lead to the same type of social class system exposed in this film.
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Minority report
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Year of exit |
2002 |
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Execution time |
2 hours 25 minutes |
There is really only one thing in Minority report This has not become reality – the use of psychic humans to predict the future. Almost all the rest of the control list is there. We have these computer interfaces controlled by the movement with the release of the Xbox Kinect, and we still have them today with devices such as meta-investigation.
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We are also at the beginning of robotic drones which take absolutely all control, and you see them everywhere in this film. However, with regard to the main gadget of the film – predictive crime – we are further than you think. The police are strongly looking at predictive algorithms, facial recognition, analysis of the process and all kinds of software and hardware tips could one day become so exact that it might know that you are probably committing a crime according to your activity on social networks, personal information and body language.
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Back to the future part II
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Year of exit |
1989 |
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Execution time |
1 hour 48 minutes |
We do not have cold fusion at home yet, no roverboards, and flying cars will never be one thing, but flat screen screens, portable technology, hands -free video games, video calls and biometric door locks are simply normal for us now. The film even predicted our nostalgia for the 80s.
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I’m just waiting for the double parallel tie enters fashion, and we are all ready.
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The Truman Show
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Year of exit |
1998 |
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Execution time |
1 hour 43 minutes |
The Truman Show Now feels more prophetic than bizarre. The big difference between reality and the film is that we know We are watched all the time. In fact, people have started to live performative lives on social networks and do not seem to have many problems that giant companies know everything about the most intimate parts of their lives. Like Truman, these companies use their surveillance of us to make a profit, but at least it was not aware that this happened.
2
Blade runner
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Year of exit |
1982 |
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Execution time |
1 hour 57 minutes |
Blade runner It may look like a film that does not belong to this list, but if you look beyond its smooth aesthetic, and you break down the main things it predicted for our future during the distant year of 2019, so there are more Blade runner in our reality that you don’t think so.
Climate collapse, mega-skills being a law in itself, the rise of robots and human type and the genetic genius of artificial life? Check, check and check.
The aesthetics of reality may not look like Blade Runner, but many of the key elements are in our near future or already in our past. The key technologies you would need to build a real replicant are not so far either!
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Demolition
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Year of exit |
1993 |
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Execution time |
1 hour 55 minutes |
On the surface, Demolition Man is a noisy and clumsy action film. But dig more deeply, and satire looks like a real life. A disinfected risk world, politically overorrated to the point of absurdity, and micrograted by algorithmic governance? We are halfway there.
Autonomous cars, virtual meetings, personalized advertisements, restaurant monopolies and even the isolation of the pandemic era echo the more absurd ideas of the film. And yes, everything is contactless, everything is essentially the joke to three people being referenced. You laugh – You realize that you have not received money for years!
The only thing we don’t have is a portable laser rifle by man, but you can bet someone, somewhere, is to work on this.
The real question is which of today’s science fiction films will prove more real than we thought in a decade or three from now?
