Sci-Fi Movies That Predicted Our Present (3 of 6)

Black Mirror

This anthology series doesn’t just predict the future, it dissects it. From social credit scores that determine your rights to memory implants and digital immortality, the scenarios it presents are either in development or being hotly debated by real-world scientists and ethicists.

Enemy of the State

In 1998’s action thriller Enemy of the State, Will Smith’s character becomes the target of relentless surveillance after acquiring some very damning evidence against a government official. Cameras track him everywhere: on the street, at home, via satellite. Back then, it seemed like paranoid fiction, and many people thought it was impossible to do. Today, mass surveillance and data leaks are daily headlines. Ironically, the film used helicopters, but in today’s world, it would be drones doing the watching, just like in The Terminator and pretty much all the recent wars.