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The future in movies and tv

by Sabrina Napolitano, ReMIND Magazine

With the invention of the steam engine in the mid-19th century, technological innovation in Western civilization took off like a bullet. Since then, we’ve never been satisfied with the status quo, always looking for new and improved ways of getting around and doing our business. From space exploration to robot butlers, television shows and movies have imagined stretching into the next century and beyond.
One of the longest and biggest-budget movies of the early silent film age was A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliés (1902). A funny, charming film, we travel to the moon in a bullet-shaped ship that hits the moon square in the eye. The idea of it captivated audiences in both France and America. While they may not have gotten aliens on the moon correct, their concept of space exploration was not far off. Humans landed on the moon just 67 years later, careful to avoid hitting the moon’s eye.
The Jetsons, first aired in 1962, explored the life of a futuristic family in the year 2062. An animated sitcom, it had no shortage of ideas about what’s to come. Take Rosie, the house robot: She cleaned, helped with the children and even had her own unique personality. We haven’t quite gotten to the point of all-in-one robots today, but we have made strides with certain cleaning devices, most notably the iRobot Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner. Even more recently, Amazon is testing drone delivery of packages, something the people of Orbit City certainly would have approved of.
Where The Jetsons could be seen as a love song to the future, Fahrenheit 451 (1966) took a much darker, dystopian view. Based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel, a McCarthy-era-style government tries to control its citizens by destroying books it considers contrary. The movie provides glimpses of technology we’ve implemented today (for better or for worse, depending on who you talk to) such as “seashells” and “thimble radios,” much like earbuds and Bluetooth headsets. There was even automated banking!
As special-effects technology improved, Hollywood rolled out bigger visions. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey became a cult hit in 1968, and had us settled on the moon and making voyages to Jupiter. The actual year 2001 is now long past, so the future the film imagined is still rather developmental. We do have unmanned rovers traveling to planets and comets, but unfortunately, no one has yet to set up house on the moon. Its videophone technology can be seen in Skype and Apple’s FaceTime, but the iPhone’s Siri isn’t as adept as Hal 9000 at piloting a spaceship. Maybe that’s a good thing!
Much of the technology and exploration envisioned in the past has come true today. Some of it, thankfully, has not. Hollywood’s future dreams haven’t all panned out — yet. As our technology grows in connectivity and ingenuity, is it just a matter of time before we’ll be riding in flying cars and jetpacks? Stay tuned.

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