Have you heard of the movies that have allegedly predicted the 9/11? While that may just be conspiracy theories, there are also a good number of movies that predicted the future of technology.
Many times too often, we get carried away by what we see in the movies. The thing is we actually fail to realize the imaginary world that exists in the brain of Writers. When we understand this, then we can get less hurt when we don’t see that fabulous tech idea in the nearest future.
Well, some scriptwriters must have super powers then, as there are some movies which seem to predict the future of technology so smoothly. Let’s take a look at some, shall we?
Movies That Predicted The Future Of Technology
1. The Grim Game
The word robot was coined and introduced to the world in 1920 by Karel Capek, a Journalist, Playwright and Novelist from the Czech Republic. Interestingly, in August of the previous year (1919), Harry Houdini produced The Grim-Game which had Q as a cast. Q was an automaton which resembles humanoid robots that are available today with several looking to real to be fake.
2. ELECTRIC DREAMS (1984)
Today, it’s commonplace or rather common knowledge that our home and offices can be run by technological pieces. We have doors and gates that open simply by technology but it wasn’t so in 1984. It was actually shocking to see a machine controlling so much in the movie, Electric Dreams.
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As our reliance on technology increases by the day, we can only hope that we never get to battle for human love with a robot as it turned out in the film.
3. WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929)
Largely regarded as one of the first ‘serious’ SciFi movies, Woman in the Moon landed the first set of humans on the moon in October 1929, using a rocket. 40 years later in July 1969, the spaceflight Apollo 11 dropped Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the pilot on the moon.
Thankfully, they both returned to Earth amidst great cheer unlike in the movie where only two of the six expeditors returned alive.
4. STAR TREK (THE ORIGINAL SERIES) (1996)
Star Trek made its debut in 1966 and by 2016 July had garnered revenue of about $10 billion. It has also made several persons rich by dishing out technology inspirations in ‘The Original Series’. One of this happens to be Motorola, the giant phone company credited for the production of the first handheld phone in the world.
This was done by a Motorola Executive and Researcher called Martin Cooper who is reported to have said that one of his influencing factors for the invention was the communicator yielded by Captain Kirk in the movie.
5. STAR WARS (1983)
In 2017, Malloy Aeronautics launched a Hoverbike which they boast can deliver people, aid and equipment autonomously. While we may regard this as amazing technology, it will be key to note that the makers of Star Wars VI thought this up first.
A hybrid of a bike-motorcycle which hovers above the ground is seen in the movie and can only be aptly described as a technological prediction.
6. YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998)
Online dating is now so popular that despite the cons associated with it, a good number of us still try our hands at it. In 1998, fictional characters, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, were one of the first persons to deal with the ‘awkward’ reality of meeting someone for the first time after hours on the net.
In the movie, the chatters turn out to be business rivals who end up falling in love. One word of advice please, not all that glitter is gold i.e. not all online dating stories end in happily ever after.
7. THE MAN (1972)
When President Barrack Obama won the 2008 United States election to become the first black president of the United States, it was indeed a huge accomplishment for the black community. Unknown to most persons, Rod Serling had already ‘seen’ this happening and show the world in the 1972 movie, The Man.
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The difference was that the black President in the movie came in by a stroke of chance when the President dies and the vice president rejected the offer to step in so the onus fell on him, the black Senate President.
8. BACK TO THE FUTURE
It shouldn’t be surprising that a movie titled Back to the Future predicted a number of future technological inventions correctly including self-lacing shoes. Nike took the cake home on this one when they released their design in 2016. The shoes were called Nike HyperAdapt and needless to say, they are an amazing technology, according to reviews.
These are just a few of the awesome technological inventions first glimpsed from a Writer’s mind (through movies). We wonder what another revelation the future has in stock for us.
