![]() Only he’s not so crazy, is he? Not about using your computer to watch female mud wrestling, at least. Soon, every American home will integrate their television, phone, and computer! You’ll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel and watch female mud wrestling on another! You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with your friend in Vietnam.” That’s Jim Carrey’s crazy Cable Guy character in Ben Stiller’s movie of the same name. More importantly, it predicted a golden age when we’d be able to order pizza without leaving our houses or talking to another human being. ![]() Set in 1995, it depicted online identity theft before that was a thing that really happened. Is one of those movies that, in retrospect, looks “somewhat hokey” (that’s us being polite). Of course, that tech was played for laughs in The New Batch, where it constantly broke down. With its automatic doors, lights, and, well, automatic everything else, the high-tech skyscraper Clamp Tower, where most of the movie’s action takes place, was a precursor to modern day “smart home” technology. Joe Dante’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch may not have been the most realistic film ( remember that Hulk Hogan fourth wall break?), but it still managed to get an accurate prediction in there by accident. But the Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle Total Recall got there first, even if its self-driving cars are equipped with a robot taxi driver named “Johnny Cab.” Tesla probably won’t use that one. Uber, Tesla, and Google, among other companies, are working on bringing self-driving cars to the road though we have a ways to go before members of the general public can buy them, the tech does exist and is being further developed. In the Back to the Future franchise’s version of 2015, Marty McFly’s kids can take calls on futuristic phones that they wear as sunglasses. ![]() We may not have flying cars or hoverboards quite yet, but Back to the Future Part II did predict wearable tech, à la Google Glass. ![]()
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