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Ten movies that eerily predicted the future
Blade Runner (1982)The film, directed by Ridley Scott, is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, and foresaw a number of technological advances.The main one being artificial intelligence and robots like Sophia - although we’re not quite at the level of the film’s replicants yet.Another is the giant electronic billboards on the LA skyline with digital adverts flashing on rotation - examples of this are in Times Square in New York and in London’s Piccadilly Circus.Back to the Future part II (1989)No flying DeLoreans as yet, and the so-called 'hover boards' that are around today are nothing like the transport in the film (the Hendo one Tony Hawk once rode doesn't count).But there are plenty of elements of the movie, set partly in 2015,