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

8. Biological Bombs

Promised By: Escape From New York If there's anything John Carpenter's Escape From New York taught us, other than reaffirming that eye patches are cool, it was that you should never, ever trust doctors. The director's vision of 1988 saw not only Manhattan transformed into an enormous prison, but that the government would become so determined to save their commander in chief that they would actively inject microscopic explosives into the body of a man to motivate him to do their work for them. While it would undoubtedly become a brilliant way for the government to get everyone to get up and do something useful once in a while, such injections are almost certainly not going to prove a popular invention, given the likely mess it would cause thanks to those still unwilling or unable to comply, and thus exploding. Though this would provide a great deal of employment to the cleaning industry, there is, after all, a recession on.