32 Futuristic TV Shows and Movies That Attempted to Predict the Future

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32 Futuristic TV Shows and Movies That Attempted to Predict the Future

After putting together this list, we really gained a new appreciation for movies and shows that depict the near future. It’s a ballsy endeavor. The distant future is child's play. Anything you predict about life in 5024 would have zero rebuttal. Unless, of course, a time-traveler from that year came back to grade your script. But near-future prophets could take some serious flak for wildly inaccurate predictions. Luckily, these flak-lackers got it right.

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IF THERE IS ONE SCI-FI STAPLE, IT IS BEING ABLE TO SPEAK TO A MACHINE AND HAVE IT DO WHAT YOU WANT. YOU HAVE I PROBLEM Now it's hard to imagine a time when your machines didn't listen to you. CRACKED.COM

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Back in Buck Rogers' day, reusable rockets were obviously the only way to travel through space. And now, thanks to SpaceX, we have commercially viable reusable rockets that land straight up, just like in the comics. CRACKED.COM

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The Picturephone predicts 1980s payphones. 2001: A Space Odyssey The Picturephone is a payphone with a Bell System logo and a push-button layout. To use it, one inserts a credit card, which had been developed in 1960 but was not widely used until the 1980s. CRACKED

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Identity theft: a reality foretold in 1995. The Net WEAR Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, whose life is put in danger when she discovers a strange glitch in a computer game. The movie follows Angela as she is subjected to identity theft and attempts to clear her name, while exploring how vulnerable people can be to surveillance through computers. CRACKED

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Star Trek 20th-century sci-fi predicts 21st- century agriculture. In The Trouble with Tribbles, Quadrotriticale is a genetically- engineered hybrid grain, predicting GMO, and used in 2268 to attempt to develop Sherman's Planet as an agrarian colony. CRACKED

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The future is now-Marty McFly predicted it all. Needles, Douglas J. Age: 47 Birthday: August 6 1968 Back to the Future Part II Citizens are shown using screens for video calls and devices instead of cash in a way that is similar to modern day technology. CRACKED

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ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979

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Airplane! 2 predicted the use of full-body A CRIME scanners by airport security TO PO FEDERAL SAFETY PIES BEA As a throwaway gag, pervy airport security watch NSFW full-body scans in the 1982 sequel, hitting a little too close to home in a post-9/11 world. CRACKED.COM

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