Killer drones and AI lovers – 10 films that predicted the future

There have been countless developments that would have seemed extraordinarily fanciful, even a couple of decades ago .

But this doesn't mean that Hollywood hasn’t been prescient over the years .

Here are ten instances that sci-fi pictures have, inadvertently or otherwise, predicted the technology of the future.

In the opening scenes of the film, the human survivors of the apocalypse are shown battling unmanned but deadly robot-piloted missiles and planes.

This anticipates the rise of drone warfare a couple of decades later , now a commonplace aspect of military hardware.

The film seems prophetic in entirely different ways, especially in its anticipation of the way in which everyone who has an Instagram or Facebook account is now their very own Truman Burbank , constantly editing and finessing the very best version of themselves.

Spike Jonze's sci-fi fable Her predicted the Covid pandemic just over a decade ago .

Less than a decade later , it was a step-by-step prediction of everything that could, and did, happen.

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