7. Mobile Phones - Forbidden Planet
Alright, this isn't exactly the most prescient prediction on this list, but you still have to give Forbidden Planet some credit nonetheless given that it called the idea of mobile phone about three decades before it came to popular fruition. Indeed, the crew of the United Planets Cruiser C-57D all came with small communication devices attached to their belt buckles (as well as cameras), and though we still defer to the old-fashioned pocket for on-person storage, they seem to have mostly gotten it right. In retrospect, the film is something of a depressing reminder how inescapable technology is; you sit down to watch a classic movie, hoping its sci-fi predictions will be hilariously out of date, but even they have Leslie Nielsen Tweeting on his iPhone...