12 Sci-Fi Movies That Got The Future SCARILY Right

9. Blade Runner - Digital Billboards And Video Calling

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A lot of Blade Runner's futuristic technology was obviously designed to be pretty far-fetched, but with the 2019-set movie now taking place in the past it remains interesting to see what ended up becoming a reality.

Instantly dated by the heavy reliance on photographs in a modern society where the uploaded social media image is king, Ridley Scott's classic nonetheless predicted that video calling would become an everyday part of people's lives, especially at the moment where Zoom seems to have exploded out of nowhere to become one of the world's most ubiquitous apps.

On the other hand, while the use of digital billboards are nowhere near as prevalent as they are in the movie's dystopian Los Angeles, LED advertisements are a rapidly-growing technology that are becoming an increasingly regular sight from both a public service and marketing perspective.

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