So where's my hoverboard???

I love old Sci-Fi movies from the 50's, it was a golden age, it was the atomic age, it was also the paranoid age, WWII was over but there were threats around ever corner, is it a coincident that Hollywood made a lot of films about invaders from Mars, the RED planet (do you get it, red, as in Russian!)

Of course there were a lot of great, and influential Sci-Fi novels written around then as well, the likes of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Robert A. Heinlen were producing classics such as I, Robot, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and Starship Troopers, it truly was a golden age.

But filmmakers and writers had been predicting the future long before that, you only have to look and Georges Melies 1902 A Trip to the Moon, to see that, this was loosely based on H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon.

So what did the Sci-Fi writers and filmmakers get wrong, and in some cases, right!

Going to start with my favourite movie, just for a change, Blade Runner, which is set in a dark and drizzly Los Angles in 2019, yep, last year! 

So where are the lifelike replicants, you know, the ones that are mining offworld planets that are deemed too dangerous for humans to work on, also the artificial animals that people have because we've virtually made everything extinct (well we are trying hard to make that one come true, the extinct bit anyways).

And where is my spinner???

So what did they get right about 2019 in Blade Runner, talking to computers, climate change and advertising everywhere.

Now what about Back to the Future II (set in 2015), everybody wants a hoverboard, or so they say, I don't, but that's just me, you could of course get one of those "hoverboards" that run on 2 wheels (think some people don't understand the concept of hovering! 

Also what about my self trying shoelaces, and massive 3D hologram billboards, flying cars, automatic shrink to fit clothing, dehydrated pizza that turns into a full pizza in seconds?

Things they got right were drones, they are everywhere now, fingerprint identification, large flatscreens in the home and money transfers from portable devices.

Of course a lot of Sci-Fi movies also predicted that by 2020 the world would be a barren wasteland devastated by nuclear war (Trump still has time!) natural disaster, alien invasion or meteoroid hit, and lets not forget my all time favourite, zombie apocalypse (that will be a whole new blog on it's own) also that man would be at least living on the Moon, if not Mars by now.

I think the desire to colonise another planet is there (but I'm pretty sure they want to make a good job of screwing this one up first), with reusable rockets and a renewed pioneer spirit from the likes of Elon Musk perhaps by 2050 it will be possible, who knows, certainly not me, or filmmakers by the look of it!