It’s 2019, which means we’re definitely living in the future! If you don’t believe me, look out the window and witness all the hovercrafts, all the jetpacks, all the ray guns, all the food replicators! It’s a glorious technical wonderland!
Well, okay, it’s not as glorious as the sci-fi movies would have us believe (although we do have streaming services now!). Indeed, a lot of sci-fi has already proven to be wholly inaccurate. 1984 was nothing like the book 1984. New York was not walled off and made into a prison in 1997 (as posited by John Carpenter’s Escape from New York), nor was Los Angeles walled off and turned into a prison in 2013 (as posited by its sequel). Heck, by Star Trek’s timeline, Khan should have risen to power way back in 1992, and the Eugenics Wars should have ended by 1996. Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, will be born in 2030, so mark your calendars.
Source: IGN.com The Sci-Fi Movies That Predicted 2019… And Got It Wrong