Zeitgeist 2049
Visions of the near future & beyond
Zeitgeist
Definition: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
Near Future
Back To The Future (bio-metric payment, holograms, tablets, videoconferencing, hydroponics, AR/VR, wall mounted widescreen TVs)
Gattaca (extreme genetic profiling)
Jurassic Park (animal cloning)
Children of Men (mass infertility)
Minority Report (gesture based interface, predictive intelligence)
Her (AI operating software)
Ex Machina (passing the Turing test)
2001: A Space Odyssey (artificial general intelligence)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (memory erasure)
Total Recall (memory implantation)
Upgrade (neuromotor enhancement)
The Martian (first Mars mission)
Black Mirror (various societal implications of tech)
Mid-Range Future
The Terminator (killer AI)
The Matrix (oppressive AI)
Interstellar (climate change, food insecurity & space colonization)
Elysium (ring worlds, robot security, extreme rich/poor divide, advanced medical diagnostics, exosuits, matter deflectors)
Ad Astra (widespread space exploration)
The Expanse (widespread space colonization)
Blade Runner (synthetic humanoids, sprawling mega-cities)
Altered Carbon (similar to Blade Runner)
Avatar (off world resource extraction, space imperialism)
Alien (hostile alien lifeforms, mass space industrialization)
Westworld (indistinguishable AI theme parks, global predictive AI)
Ghost in the Shell (artificial bodies, copies of consciousness)
Cyberpunk (post nuclear war, hyper-capitalism, cyber-implants)
Deus Ex (similar to Cyberpunk, mind-hacking, cyborg discrimination)
Far Future & Fantasy
Dune (tribalistic factions, psychedelic use, abandonment of AI)
Star Wars (George Lucas: self explanatory)
Foundation (Isaac Asimov: godfather of sci-fi novels)
Raised By Wolves (atheist vs religious high tech war)
District 9 (discrimination of trapped alien visitors)
Annihilation (unexplainable alien life-form)
Arrival (alien visitors offering higher dimensional tech)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(cognitive accelerant, inter-species war)
Wall E (Earth becomes a landfill, space cruises)
Akira (unexplainable far biotech)