5. Marriage of TV, Computer, Phone & Games Devices - The Cable Guy
I stand by my claim that Ben Stiller's The Cable Guy is a criminally underrated film, both for Jim Carrey's nuanced, demented, sad performance, and the fact that it eerily managed to predict how technology trends would change a decade later. During the film's climactic stand-off between Chip (Carrey) and Steven (Matthew Broderick), Chip screams about all the ways technology is going to transform; a combination of television, computers and phones. Perhaps most prophetically, he suggests you'll be able to play Mortal Kombat with a friend living in Vietnam. In the present day, online gaming is a cultural mainstay, and services like Skype and on-demand TV fully live up to Chip's prediction. It's an unfortunate fact that because the film is critically divisive and not one of Carrey's bigger hits, more praise isn't lavished on it for its impressive predictions of technology's future.