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

3. Contactless iPods

Promised By: Firewall Speaking of iPods, the Harrison Ford effort Firewall, released in 2006, predicted that later that very same year, Apple's trademark music mammoth would develop a seriously impressive new feature. Turns out that Ford, an unwilling hacker, can download files equating to $100 million (who knows how we're supposed to explain that) onto his pink iPod mini by doing little more than taping the device to the screen of a computer. Just imagine the chaos that would ensue if such a technology had been available? The sheer amount of fraud and identity theft alone would have been immeasurable, let alone the prospect of just how much Lars Ulrich would have exploded upon the realisation that people could own his music by simply pressing an iPod to a screen, and not forking out actual money for him to swim in in his vast Scrooge McDuck-like vault of gold.