Science Fiction's Predictions for the Future
Science Fiction's Predictions for the Future Can you imagine a society that contains a mixture of humans and cyborgs disguised as humans functioning together? Well, that’s what James Cameron’s The Terminator predicts for us in a short 9 years, 2029. If you’ve seen the movie franchise, you know Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character travels from 2029 back to 1984. Needless to say, Cameron had big dreams for technological advancements in the 21 st century. Science fiction movies with ideas about technological advancements are not so uncommon. According to Aikat (2014), “science fiction has inspired visions of future media developments” for years and has “enabled us to transform technologies and tools” that we use in current everyday life. We haven’t yet advanced to a time of flying cars , but according to Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element , that won’t happen until around the year 2263, so we (the human race) have about 243 years to figure out the technology and make it happen. Mo...