Hollywood and anime has imagined a whole world of tech ahead of us, and this great timeline shows where films are set in our possible future. I love sci-fi, so it’s fun to see that Back To The Future II’s hoverboards, Robocop’s mechanical law enforcement, and The 6th Day’s human cloning are all set just a few years away in 2015.
I’d also forgotten The Running Man (starring Arnie in 1987) was set in 2017 — despite Stephen King’s 1982 book placing events in 2025. What must have seemed like far-fetched dystopian futures 20 and 30 years ago, now seem like plausible satire in today’s content-hungry world with a morbid addiction to reality TV and live coverage of natural disasters. [Tremulant Design via Geek Tyrant via First Showing]
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Steve
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM41,000 – War
Zayne
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 5:33 PMTHIS!!!
James Mac
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 5:36 PMBonus points awarded for the Red Dwarf reference.
Danny Allen
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 6:01 PMSurprised there was no Star Trek
lulz
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 11:16 PMHuh, a couple o’ films mentioned.
Alex Garcia
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 6:59 PMWhat about Buck Rogers?
Joh
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 9:21 PMJust 8 more years till awesome future pyramid thingies! I’ll start saving for one now!
leo
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 9:11 AMBrilliant! Just brilliant.
Funny how most of the times are in peril.
AnthonyP
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 9:45 AMIssue with the Matrix reference. They state that they do not know what year it is, as the cycle of computer versus man have been going on for so long.
paul parker
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 12:50 PMMorpheus actually states to neo ” you think its the year 1999, well in fact its much closer to 2199″ then says that he doesn’t know exactly what year it is as its been going on for so long. get your facts right before commenting, thats why its on 2199 on the timeline. Great timeline though looking forward to hover-boards in 4 years :) probably the only one worth looking forward to as its the most likely to happen any time soon.
Chris
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 9:51 AMLove it but Lister from Red Dwarf hates pot noodles and loves vindaloo curries.
olearymo
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 12:03 PMDoesn’t say he liked them, just that he eats them ;)
MrTaco
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 11:41 AMSo many shenaningans.
Shaun
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 3:58 PMJust one thing to say about the above list… Lister HATES Pot Noodles.
Sam Timmins
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 3:35 AMFuturama info is screwed up.
It began in *2999*, remember?