2015 should be a big year in technology, if the movies are any indication. There are some of the things we are either supposed or have, or are woefully missing out on.
I personally don’t see the appeal of bringing a pet back to life but that is the initial premise of The 6th Day. Here are the technologies
- Cloning of pets
- Cloning of humans, with memory transplant
- Jet Copters
- Virtual Prostitutes
The present is made significantly more disappointing if you consider how much we were promised from Back to the Future 2
- Mr. Fusion
- Power Laces
- Self Adjusting/Drying Clothing
- Robot Gas Stations
- Holographic Movies
- News Camera Drones
- Robot Trashcans
- All things Hover (cars, boards, belts)
- Exceptional Weather Service
- Food Hydrators
The movie Memory Run (or Synapse, depending on who you ask) seems to offer only a couple of things
- The ability to move a consciousness into another body
- The ability to monitor and control someone based on their behavior (violence = bad)
Camera drones; http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/drone-camera-footage-landslide-video-3040903
“Virtual Prostitutes” – if you spend anytime on Tinder, you’ll discover that this is already in existence (reference: http://valleywag.gawker.com/tinder-is-full-of-robot-prostitutes-1610277221)
Runaway (1984 film)
– household helper robots for cooking, cleaning, that look humanoid (I think the Japanese are approaching these)
– robot automated farm harvesters
– extremely small video camera/tracking drones (we do have these)
– “smart” bullets that can turn corners (almost have these, see wire-guided missiles)
– police using mediums (remote viewers?)
– “assassin robots” (do we have killer drones today?)