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It\u2019s no secret that sci-fi movies have always been a great way to peek into the future. The range of the predictions that they all make boldly range from technology to the way we act as a society, but that doesn\u2019t make it any less shocking to see a decades-old film poke fun at our present reality.<\/p>\n

From Marty McFly\u2019s futuristic TV set up to Total Recall\u2019s full-body scanners\u2014which are a sad reality to anyone who\u2019s been on a flight lately\u2014here are some sci-fi flicks that made some insightful guesses.<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 Minority Report \u2013 Modern Advertising
\nAnyone who\u2019s been on Amazon.com or Facebook lately will appreciate the similarities between Tom Cruise\u2019s bombardment with the oddly self-catered ads which Internet retailers are now able to reproduce.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 Total Recall \u2013 Body Scanners
\nIn 2010, body scanners became a common thing at airports across the U.S., but we first saw the real-time x-ray-like device in action in 1990\u2019s Schwarzenegger-starring Total Recall.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 Blade Runner \u2013 Short-Lived Gadgets
\nMy grandmother has had the same rotary phone, dishwasher and microwave for as long as I can remember. But 1982\u2019s Blade Runner introduced a more-common take on our relationship with technology: our time with it is very, very finite. Replicants, the genetically engineered robot workers, have a lifespan of four years, which is a lot better than what you\u2019ll get out of that iPhone.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 Back to the Future II \u2013 Multi-channel viewing
\nIn 1989\u2019s Back to the Future II, Marty McFly is able to catch up on six TV shows at once on his flat screen TV. Sports enthusiasts, news junkies and reality-show fans have been enjoying multiple channels simultaneously for years now.<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 The Truman Show \u2013 Reality TV<\/p>\n

After years of watching Housewives, socialites of the Jersey Shore, celebrities that need rehabbing and Hoarders across the world, we think back to a simpler time in 1998 when the idea of a man\u2019s life being made into a TV show seemed odd enough to make a movie out of it.<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 Soylent Green \u2013 Overpopulation
\nAlthough we haven\u2019t exactly been reduced to cannibalism, 1973\u2019s Soylent Green has made a strong case to worry about overpopulation. The film features a New York in 2022 that\u2019s grown to a population of 40 million people who end up eating food rations that turn out to be, well, people. And while New York\u2019s population would have to grow a lot in a decade (by about 18 million, actually), to become a reality, complications of overpopulation that include scarce resources and pollution are still very real today.<\/p>\n

Tyler Kane, Paste.com
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