Didn't these guys ever see Children of Men etc. ? ![Stick Out Tongue](http://murc.ws/core/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
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10: 2001: a space odyssey. Hit: space tourism. Miss: AI. Undecided: videophones (ever hear of videoconferencing?
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9: Short Circuit. Hit: autonomous combat robots. Miss: lasers & AI.
8: Soylent Green. Hit: climate change. Miss: industrial cannibalism, overpopulation. Undecided: widespread government sanctioned suicide.
7: Blade Runner. Hit: urban development. Miss: replicants, off-world colonies. Undecided: flying cars.
6: The Running Man. Hit: reality TV. Miss: synthetic actors edited into phoney docu-footage.
5: Destination Moon. Hit: realistic spaceflight, commercial spaceflight. Miss: none. Undecided: nuclear rockets.
4: The Truman Show. Hit: reality TV, ever present hidden cameras (my addition). Miss: weather machine.
3: The Road Warrior. Hit: resource wars. Miss: flamethrowers - in a fuel starved world would you want weapons that use scarce resources?
2: Minority Report. Hit: display technologies, self-driving cars (far closer than most think). Miss: precognition, mag-lev cars. Undecided: jet packs, iris scans, e-paper (also closer than most think).
1: Gattaca. Hit: genetic profiling. Miss: virtually none. Undecided: manned exploration of the solar system.
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The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever
When Arthur C. Clarke died last week at the age of 90, science fiction—hell, science in general—lost one of its greatest, most forward-looking masters. In his honor, PM’s resident geek and sci-fi buff analyzes the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future. They’re not necessarily the best movies—just the ones that got the science right, or will sometime soon.
When Arthur C. Clarke died last week at the age of 90, science fiction—hell, science in general—lost one of its greatest, most forward-looking masters. In his honor, PM’s resident geek and sci-fi buff analyzes the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future. They’re not necessarily the best movies—just the ones that got the science right, or will sometime soon.
![Stick Out Tongue](http://murc.ws/core/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
9: Short Circuit. Hit: autonomous combat robots. Miss: lasers & AI.
8: Soylent Green. Hit: climate change. Miss: industrial cannibalism, overpopulation. Undecided: widespread government sanctioned suicide.
7: Blade Runner. Hit: urban development. Miss: replicants, off-world colonies. Undecided: flying cars.
6: The Running Man. Hit: reality TV. Miss: synthetic actors edited into phoney docu-footage.
5: Destination Moon. Hit: realistic spaceflight, commercial spaceflight. Miss: none. Undecided: nuclear rockets.
4: The Truman Show. Hit: reality TV, ever present hidden cameras (my addition). Miss: weather machine.
3: The Road Warrior. Hit: resource wars. Miss: flamethrowers - in a fuel starved world would you want weapons that use scarce resources?
2: Minority Report. Hit: display technologies, self-driving cars (far closer than most think). Miss: precognition, mag-lev cars. Undecided: jet packs, iris scans, e-paper (also closer than most think).
1: Gattaca. Hit: genetic profiling. Miss: virtually none. Undecided: manned exploration of the solar system.
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