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The Future Has Arrived

268.2k views11 Hilarious Vintage Ads That Tried to Predict the FutureWhen it comes to old predictions of the future, people from the past could never have imagined a world where humans put a man on t...

102k viewsOld Futuristic Movies Whose Futures We've PassedMost of the visions of the future from old movies have not completely come to be. Flying cars are still a sci-fi dream, and no one...

6.2k voters18 Predictions About The Future That History Proved Way, Way WrongNothing ages more poorly in pop culture than bad predictions. Made with the best intentions, and then memorialized in print, futur...

581 votersThings Sci-Fi Movies Always Get Wrong About The FutureAs a genre, science fiction presents fictional futures and fictional worlds in order to illustrate truths about our own world. But...

456 votersWhat '90s Movies Thought The Next 20 Years Would Look LikeThe 1990 predictions for 2020 and the years surrounding it were bold and varied. The filmmakers of the time were rocking out to Ni...

Graveyard Shift

2.4k votersThe Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever DoneTechnology hurtles forward at a startling pace. If you’ve ever heard someone complain that they just replaced their cell phone onl...

27.4k views14 Times Science Fiction Writers Predicted the FutureAll manner of people have made extraordinary future predictions throughout history, but science fiction writers seem to have a par...

705 votersThe Most Ridiculous Future Fashions In '80s FilmsSome of the silliest, most over-the-top futuristic fashion came from '80s movies. From major hits like Star Wars and Aliens to les...

9.3k votersThe Best Dystopian And Near Future MoviesThe best dystopian and near future movies are the films that make us a little more thankful for the Starbucks line every morning. ...

The End of the World

51.9k viewsTimes Dystopian Novels Predicted Real Life EventsScience fiction can get eerily detailed sometimes, especially when displaying an imperfect, dystopian future. Well, at least we ca...

589 votersThe Scariest Current TechnologiesTechnology is advancing at an ever quickening pace, and new breakthroughs are often feared as much as they are celebrated. The hea...

2.2k votersEvery 'Black Mirror' Episode, RankedThanks to Netflix, fans of Black Mirror, the BBC shows Netflix brought stateside, have been gifted many more episodes since its pr...

2.5k votersPopular Stuff We'll Make Fun of in the FutureIt's time to face the facts: a ton of the things we love today, we will end up mocking one day in the future. You know how it goes...

The End of the World

775 votersThe Best Fictional Dystopias to Live InIf science fiction tells us anything, it’s that a perfect society ruled by one person, or a shadow government made up of robots or...

13.9k viewsPhotos Of 1960s Inventions When They Were New And CoolWhile it may seem like technology is progressing exponentially in the 21st century, mankind has always been steadily inventing and...

5.8k viewsEvery Single Self-Driving Car Accident And DeathThe amount of self-driving and semi-autonomous vehicles on the roads has exploded in recent years, ushering in a new transportatio...

279 votersVideo Games That Shockingly Predicted The FutureWhen it comes to video games, many offer a fictional view of things. Some games have left people speechless while predicting the f...

286 voters12 Inventions Sci-Fi Warned Us About - And Then Real Scientists Just Invented Them AnywaySince the beginning of cinema, science fiction movies have been accurately predicting future technologies and scientific breakthro...

202 votersThe Actual Reasons Experts Fear The Rise Of AIScience-fiction has cemented our understanding of Artificial Intelligence long before the technology was even possible. In fact, o...

58 votersGritty Sci-Fi Movies Where The Future Isn’t Sleek And CleanDisclaimer: This article was written using generative AI tools and edited by a human.For some sci-fi movies, the future isn't alwa...