5 Sci-Fi Films That Were Completely Wrong About The Future

By: Rick Austin Unfortunately, time moves on and the futures presented in movies get overtaken by real life.

According to sci-fi films, by the year 2015, we should have been surrounded by flying cars, and seeing kids everywhere riding hoverboards. Here are a few sci-fi film futures that were dead wrong…

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Many predictions came true, like voiceprint recognition and flat-screen TVs. Fortunately, lunar colonization and hostile AI haven't happened... yet.

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A spacecraft lands in the Mojave Desert in the far-flung future of… 1988. Seriously? By 1991, they’ve learned the language, taken jobs and live in the delightfully-named Slagtown.

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Thankfully, we don’t live in Bruce Willis’ future, where people are living in cages underground and have to wear giant body condoms to avoid infection.

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Just imagine, New York is a desolate wasteland inhabited by Will Smith, his dog, and a horde of vampire/zombie-people. Apparently, that was how the future of… 2012… was.

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This time it’s the wild future of 1999, and memories are being recorded in the cerebral cortex, then downloaded and viewed like regular movies.

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5 Sci-Fi Films That Were Completely Wrong About The Future

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2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Alien Nation (1988)

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12 Monkeys (1995)

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I Am Legend (2007)

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Strange Days (1995)

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