12 Tech Advances We Should Have By Now (According To Movies)

4. Self-Aware Murderbots

Promised By: 2001: A Space Odyssey The jump in technology from having your own housekeeping android to HAL-9000 is a slightly dramatic one, but Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey points out that we're lucky to have escaped having to deal with such a thing. HAL was the ship's computer, designed to aid the crew in every situation possible, but ended up malfunctioning, gaining an evil personality and decided that the best way to save the crew was to murder most of them. 2001 would have gone dramatically differently had the iPod (launched the same year) behaved like HAL, telling us that it can't let us listen to Savage Garden or t.A.T.u. Although with hindsight, that would have been preferable to what we actually ended up doing, so perhaps we could have forgiven the murderbots for that, despite all the genocide.