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The Future Has Arrived
Vintage295.6k 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...
Entertainment18 votersOld 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...
Futurism6.3k 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...
Fact vs. Fiction624 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...
Futurism30.8k 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...
Futurism9.8k votersThe Best Futuristic Dystopian Movies Of All TimeThe allure of dystopian futures has long captured the imagination of filmmakers and audiences alike. The best dystopian future mov...
The End of the World53.4k 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...
The End of the World852 votersFictional Dystopias, Ranked By How Much You'd Wouldn't Mind Living In ThemIf science fiction tells us anything, it’s that a perfect society ruled by one person, or a shadow government made up of robots or...
Total Nerd306 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...
Entertainment520 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...
Entertainment249 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...
Total Nerd424 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...
Futurism26 voters11 Horrifying Fictional Dystopias That Keep Us Up At NightIf you were to type "we are in a dystopia" into any search engine, you would be inundated with articles and blogs debating whether...
Entertainment17 votersWhat 11 Movies And TV Shows Get Right (And Wrong) About AIIt’s impossible to turn on the news these days without hearing some kind of discourse about Artificial Intelligence, which has bec...
Watchworthy46 votersThe Biggest AI Controversies In Pop Culture, Ranked By Outrage CausedEven though artificial intelligence has been in the works for decades, it hit a huge popularity surge in 2023. Rather than just us...
Entertainment362.8k views17 Ways 'Idiocracy' Has Actually Come TrueThough it was a box office bomb when first released in 2006, Idiocracy gave viewers a vision of the future that has come true in s...
Nostradamus48.6k views12 Things Nostradamus Was Totally Wrong AboutFor the most part, Nostradamus prophecies are either so vague it's impossible to tell what they're predicting, or have no specific...
Futurism25 votersWhich AI Uses Are The Most Problematic?Different implementations of AI-based technology have been on the rise. Some uses of artificial intelligence seem innocuous enough...