reply to post by q_ball
Don't forget the giant robots who come to Earth to save us from Unicron (Transformers: The Movie was supposedly set in 2005), the Pan-Am shuttles to
our orbiting space habitat, the thriving Lunar colony, and commercially-available self-aware computers (all available in 2001, of course), flying cars
powered by fusion reactors (Back to the Future), and the gigantic domed cities where life is paradise, but nobody lives past 30 (Logan's Run).
My point being that, since science fiction is, by its very nature, predicting the future in *some* way, you're going to find glimpses of today in
just about every old science fiction film, particularly if you're looking at broad enough categories of similarity. The ones that you found are
fairly common to any dystopian science fiction, regardless of when it was written/produced (1984 being a literally classic case). The ones I mentioned
range from the absurd (Transformers, BttF), through serious futurism (2001), to the dystopian (Logan's Run). I don't think the S-F movies of the
80's were 'prophetic' so much as they were 'numerous'.
