9 Movies That Predicted Current Technology

movies often missed their mark when it

comes to predicting the future I mean

where are flying cars

I was promised two flying cars having

said that there are several visionary

films like Minority Report and 2001 a

Space Odyssey that had managed to

predict some aspects of technological

innovation correctly from predicting VR

to self-driving cars here's a list of

movies that were ahead of their time

2001 a Space Odyssey is a sci-fi classic

that predicted numerous technological

innovations in the 1968 film we see

protagonist dr. Dave Bowen watching

videos on a tablet as he's eating a meal

aboard a space station Apple began

popularizing the tablet form factor when

it initially released the iPad in 2010

now we have several computing tablets

from Google Samsung Microsoft and more

2001 a Space Odyssey also brought us how

nine thousand one of the greatest

characters in sci-fi history the AI

assistant was capable of speech facial

recognition and more I know that you and

Frank were planning to disconnect me and

I'm afraid that's something I cannot

allow to happen it was also hell-bent on

killing humans

Apple famously released its own voice

assistant in 2011 with the launch of

Siri on iPhones now we have androids

okay google voice assistant and Amazon

Alexa the verdict is still out on

whether these AI assistants will try to

end us however

the 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner is

greatly revered for a dafaq ative neon

depiction of the future massive digital

billboards playing videos were prominent

throughout the movie cyberpunk world

flash-forward to today and you have neon

digital billboards littered in areas

such as Times Square in New York and

Akihabara and Japan the first robot made

its debut on film before the term robot

was even coined in the Harry Houdini

black-and-white silent film the grim

game we see a humanoid looking automaton

named cute your since had numerous

robots throughout history but one

relatively recent one that caught the

attention of many is Sofia the human

looking robot was developed by Hong Kong

company Hanson robotics in the 1986

movie short circuit a tech company

prototypes robots for the US military

and ends up creating Johnny Five

now there are companies like Boston

Dynamics that are designing robots for

the US military

recently the tech company released a

video that went viral which showcased a

man trying to hold back a doglike robot

from opening a door despite some tugging

from the man which led to minor Robo

dismemberment the robot persisted until

it accomplished its mission cool or

creepy after being shot up

police officer Alex J Murphy finds

himself on the brink of death in Robocop

he's saved when the government revives

what's left of him and augments his body

with machinery

among his enhancements is a visor that

augments his vision it displays grids

which help bolsters aim and provides

additional info like mission objectives

and video feeds today we have augmented

reality headsets like Google glass and

AR advisors like hololens and magically

that are in development Back to the

Future Part 2 showcased self-lacing Nike

shoes fast forward to today you have

Nike shoes that look and function nearly

identical to the ones in the movie ok so

maybe this is a case where a movie

directly influences an invention ok I

actually started working on the shoes in

2005 but the battery technology wasn't

ready at the time and it required bulky

motors as mobile technology improved

Nike resumed to work on the shoes in

2012 before releasing them in 2016 just

about everybody wanted a hoverboard

after Marty McFly rode one in Back to

the Future Part 2 well we have them now

kinda tech company Hendo successfully

funded its hoverboard Kickstarter by

raising over $500,000

to the crowdfunding site it works too

I've tried it the only cab yet and it's

a major one is that it uses maglev

technology and thus requires a

conductive metal floor so unless you

have access to a copper skatepark you

probably won't get to ride one anytime

soon in total recall Arnold

Schwarzenegger character rides in a

self-driving Johnny cab the sci-fi taxi

featured a talking robot driver well

that's not a thing you can do today

self-driving cars are very real Google

has been testing them since 2009 and as

of June 2016 the tech giant's

self-driving vehicles drove over 1.7

million miles

many companies such as Nvidia Tesla and

uber are now working on self-driving car

technology aimed at the mass-market in

the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man dr.

Lawrence Angelo experiments on a

simple-minded gardener named Joe Smith

by strapping him to a virtual reality

headset the our contraption dramatically

improves Smith's cognitive abilities it

also inadvertently gives him telepathic

powers an evil mastermind subplot ensues

while we get to discover telepathic

capabilities we do have VR headsets like

the oculus rift psvr HTC vive in

addition to gaming VR headsets are also

helping autistic people develop better

social skills our assisting patients

overcome psychological issues like PTSD

in the 2002 released movie Minority

Report Tom Cruise waves his hands and

fingers in the air to control a gesture

base UI roughly eight years later in

2010 Microsoft would release the Kinect

with an infrared projector that would

allow the Xbox 360 to track user limbs

in three-dimensional space more advanced

subsequent devices like the leap motion

Microsoft's very own second generation

Kinect would later add higher fidelity

finger trick

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movies that correctly predicted

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