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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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Star Wars envisioned holograms in the '70s. In 2011, Mariah Carey performed a concert in five European cities using a 3D hologram projector. CRACKED.COM

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Dick Tracy's 2-way wrist radio was something we'd love to have owned when we were kids. Now we can buy a better version with a number of functions other than making calls. . 14 But for some reason, we hate it now. CRACKED.COM

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Geordi La Forge's VISOR allowed him to see by transmitting electromagnetic signals to his brain through neural implants. CRACKED.COM The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System provides sight by capturing the image and converting it into electrical pulses representing light and dark. These pulses are then transmitted through a series of skin and retinal implants to the optical neural pathways.

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The Star Trek MEDICAL TRICORDER is a diagnostic device used to obtain a patient's vitals. - The SCANADU SCOUT, currently under evaluation by the FDA, reads your heart rate & ECG, blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate and oximetry by just placing it near your forehead. - - MAY CRACKED COM

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In 1989's Back to the Future Part 2, when Marty McFly gets to the year 2015 he finds a pair of self-lacing Nike sneakers. IT'S 2016 AND THEY'RE FINALLY A REALITY. Nike's HyperAdapt shoes tighten automatically until they sense friction, and they have LEDS in the heels that light up when the shoes are tightening or when they're low on battery. The shoes can also be adjusted anytime with a pair of buttons near the tongue. CRACKED.COM

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

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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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Rosie the Robot gave us hope for a clean, automated future. Johan - While we do have dozens of different cleaning robots, none of them have built-in sass... yet GRACKED COM

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Sci-fi has always been obsessed with long-distance face-to-face communication. Fulltsu. Ito T Occupation: Super 1800 Now that we have it on almost every device with a screen, we hate it! GRACKED COMP

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Aldous Huxley imagined a Brave New World where mood-stabilizing drugs are not only free, their use is encouraged! Instead, all we have now are overpriced medications that are incredibly stigmatized. CRACKED.COM

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Disney's Smart House featured a built-in smart assistant that could control the lights, temperature, entertainment, cleaning, and other household tasks. Today, our voice-activated assistants and the internet of things allow us to control just about anything we want automatically or with a simple request. All that's missing is the apron and the jealous rage. CRACKED.COM

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THE TERMINATOR IS A RELENTLESS KILLING MACHINE THAT FEELS NO REMORSE. IT CAN'T BE BARGAINED WITH. IT CAN'T BE REASONED WITH. IT DOESN'T FEEL PITY, OR FEAR. AND IT ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD! BIOTS THANKFULLY OUR RELENTLESS KILLING MACHINES STILL NEED MINIMAL HUMAN INTERACTION, OTHERWISE WE MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE... 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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We only have a couple more years till we start turning each other into food, or at least that's what Soylent Green tells us. - - But what if we got our protein another way? Lab-grown meat is possible, viable, and could soon be on our supermarket shelves. CRACKED.COM

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When The Truman Show came out, it was ridiculous to think anyone would watch a show about one normal guy doing normal guy things. But one look at Twitch or any YouTube celebrity will make you realize our culture has thousands of Trumans. - I - - - Name SOCIAL - - - - MIN - - - - - - - - - - UM - NE - - - - - - . - - - Prom total 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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The dark power of the internet. The Cable Guy The Cable Guy is a dark comedy about pop culture obsession and toxic friendships, with Jim Carrey playing a rubber-faced fartsmith who foreshadows the power of the internet and its possibilities. CRACKED

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Hackers ACEDHORNO OLOVE LOVE to GODOSEXЬ ROSECRETOLE 28PHREAK12U SKILL LORDNIKO LOCRA LAVERRIDE SECRETOS NEW On-demand TV, RV gaming, and more. The 1995 thriller is often mocked for its campy portrayal of teenage tech-whizzes, but it was surprisingly prophetic about modern technology, accurately predicting on-demand TV, tech world sexism, virtual reality gaming, and the dangers of simple passwords. 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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Spooks writers: Prophets? Spooks The writers of BBC One's hit MI5 drama have an uncanny knack for predicting real-life events, from the 7/7 bombings to the global financial crisis, which has led to the show being nominated for a BAFTA award in its eighth series. CRACKED

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Minority Report Targeted advertising. Advertisers are spending more money on advertising, but only half of the targeted market can remember the message and the other half want to forget it. The answer may lie in immersive direct targeting, such as the scene from Minority Report where a billboard calls out to Tom Cruise's character. 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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Scrubs The janitor knew Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. The janitor correctly predicted in 2007 that the U.S. should be looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, and a clip of this prediction went viral. CRACKED

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and DANN WALL-E SpaceX's Axiom Mission 1 launch. The 2008 Pixar movie predicted our current reality of climate change, obesity, Zoom calls, and meal replacement firms, and SpaceX's Axiom Mission 1 launch to the ISS apparently confirms this suspicion. 884 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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DEMOLITION MAN INADVERTENTLY PREDICTED SCHWARZENEGGER'S POLITICAL CAREER. Detective Huxley mentions doing research at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Stallone's character John Spartan reacts the way you'd think Stallone would. The movie came out in 1993, a full 10 years before Schwarzenegger began his two terms as Governor of California. It also predicted driverless cars, Skype, and GPS. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/-OZ_R3YpB1Y

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HAL IS HERE. The name of HAL, the sentient computer from the 1968 film 2001, is a one-letter shift from IBM. Today we have IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence so sophisticated that it defeated the two most successful Jeopardy contestants ever. Without being connected to the Internet. CRACKED.COM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/what-is-watson.html

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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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A GOOFY 1987 SITCOM PREDICTED GADHAFI'S DEATH WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. The show was called Second Chance, and in the pilot STJ PETER'S OFFICE Colonel Moammar July 29, 20TJ Gadhafi shows up in St. Peter's office in July of 2011. Gadhafi actually died in October of that year. Not too far off, for a show that aired 24 years before that date. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/o62MU1q-U1k

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Star Trek: The Next Generation featured the PADD, sci-f technology extremely similar to the iPad. The fictional mobile touch-screen Personal Access Display Devices has many similarities to the very real iPad created 30 years later. CRACKED.COM

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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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NASA uses the T-minus countdown because of the movie Woman in the Moon Before NASA existed, the 1929 sci-fi silent film used a countdown clock before launching a rocket. CRACKED.COM

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