Exploring Technology Through 7 Hollywood Movies

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For all the Hollywood movie buffs out there, we have listed seven movies that will allow you to explore the future of technology and the possible applications of it.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Director – Stanley Kubrick

Cast – Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack

The movie is the brainchild of Stanley Kubrick. The movie is noted for its exact depiction of spaceflight, ground-breaking special effects, and great imagery, even though it was released a year before humankind put its first step on the surface of moon. Kubrick is considered a visionary and all the things he showed in the movie, be it the cell phones, laptop, and other equipment are accurate in their depiction. And yes, the movie has a digital voice assistant named HAL 9000 that goes rouge and becomes the main antagonist in the movie.

Minority Report (2002)

Director – Steven Spielberg

Cast – Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow

The movie is loosely based on a short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The ...
... movie is about police personnel using three mutated humans with precognitive abilities to stop crimes before they occur. In the present context, scientists are developing algorithms that can help predicting criminal tendencies and violent streaks in people and prevent it before the crime happens.

Her (2013)

Director – Spike Jonze

Cast – Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson

Imagine a person falling for Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, or Google Voice Assistant, and loving it as a real person. Sound strange, isn’t it? Well, this movie plot is all about an introverted writer who fell in love with an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. What happens next? Does the operating system requites the love towards the writer? Or the writer’s love is unrequited?

Chappie (2015)

Director – Neill Blomkamp

Cast – Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Watkin Tudor Jones, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman

What happens when an AI that is developed to feel emotions and have independent opinions in order to effectively tackle crimes is taken over by a group of outlaws? Will it become as ruthless as they want it to be or it will retain its aspects as it was programmed?

The movie is the story of a law enforcement robot that has highly intuitive AI but it is captured and trained by a group of gangsters, who christened it ‘Chappie’.

The Martian (2015)

Director – Ridley Scott

Cast – Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Benedict Wong, Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Even as several companies are ramping up efforts to venture into space and build colonies in different planets even as inhospitable as Mars, can we ever imagine ourselves surviving, let alone thriving, in the red planet? Ridley Scott tried to explore this subject with this movie.

The movie is about a botanist astronaut who is erroneously presumed dead and left behind on Mars, leaving him to fend for himself, his struggle for survival and others' efforts to rescue him.

The Matrix Trilogy (1999 to 2003)

Director – The Wachowski Brothers

Cast – Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano

The Matrix Trilogy is a movie series about a group of people who fight a war against machine overlords who have imprisoned humanity in a virtual reality system.

Iron Man Series (2008 to 2013)

Directors – Jon Favreau and Shane Black

Cast – Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley,

The Iron Man series is among the most futuristic movies we have in recent times. Well, we are not talking about mutated people who are genetically-enhance to explode themselves. However, the flying suit technologies, drones, Jarvis (AI-based personal assistant) are all the things of future.