Movies set in 2019:
- Blade Runner
- The Running Man
- Akira
As well as the undeservedly less well known Italian movie, “2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York”.
I was actually referring to the practically nil advance of technology in the following fields:
* Laser guns
* Flying cars
* Holographic displays
* Space exploration
* Artificial Intelligence
* Robotics
Even modern AI is super specific and requires massive amounts of computing resources - 1/2
@starbreaker And even then it fails miserably, like AIs confusing images with captions in IMPACT font with cats 
What a disappointment 
On a funnier note, there's a subreddit dedicated to the lack of cool stuff in our crappy world: r/ABoringDystopia. Go figure. - 2/2
@rick_777 @starbreaker I guess the big question is when the acceleration into real-life dystopia catches up and passes the SciFi Dystopias.
And also, where's today's SciFi writing stories about 2050-2100? And to 2119 and beyond.
2050 is *nearly* inside the 30 year prediction event horizon.
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As the 21st century approached and technology was staying the same, I realized that sci fi creators overestimated the advance of human tech, and should've pumped up their years by at least 100.