The future has been a much-used topic in movies over the decades. Ever since we’ve been able to determine what the future would look like, we’ve been making a movie about it. Sadly, most of the predictions turn out to be horribly wrong. While that’s not a big deal when talking about disaster movies, it does turn out to be a pretty big downer in most other situations.
Let’s take a look at some movies that got the future horribly wrong.
Blade Runner
As much as we want the whole retro sci-fi thing to be real, there’s a lot of things in Blade Runner that don’t quite match how we’ve evolved. Blade Runner assumed that by 2019 we’d have things like colonies all over the galaxy, AI indistinguishable from real humans and flying cars. What we have is phones with 4 cameras on them.
Back to the Future
In terms of predicting the future, Back to the Future was pretty lame and we still didn’t manage to make it. Where are our hoverboards, science? Where is time travel? Heck, even self-lacing shoes aren’t a thing yet.
Mad Max
While Mad Max did get a lot of things right, like oil becoming a scarce commodity, we don’t quite yet live in a desert wasteland where people spend all their free time driving custom-made cars and shooting fire from electric guitars. We should, but we don’t.
