The Voice Was the Easy Part
Spike Jonze's soft-focus romance predicted the product, the marketing and the loneliness, and then wrote an ending that the industry has quietly agreed never to ship.
Default Settings Are the Real Legislation
In 2012 the British government braced for three in ten workers to quit their new pensions. About one in ten did. The most powerful law in your life may be a box somebody else ticked.
The Agents, Reviewed
Science fiction promised us a someone. In November 2026 we have twelve very fast interns, a few of them excellent, and none of them should be left alone with the backups.
Minority Report Was Wrong About the Crime
Spielberg's film thought prediction would be used to catch us. It turned out to be far more profitable to finish us.
The agents are here. We're tracking all 117 of them.
| Contagion 2011 | 100% | 100% | — | 7.8 | |
| Little Brother 2008 | 99% | 100% | 2030 | 6.9 | |
| Humans 2015 | 98% | 100% | 2027 | 6.6 | |
| Neuromancer 1984 | 96% | 100% | 2030 | 8.7 | |
| The Capture 2019 | 96% | 100% | 2029 | 7.6 | |
| Upgrade 2018 | 96% | 100% | 2030 | 6.4 | |
| DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test 2022 | 95% | 100% | 2028 | 8.3 | |
| Snow Crash 1992 | 94% | 100% | 2031 | 7.6 |
The future is not coming. It is being made, right now, by whoever bothers to imagine it.
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