"I claim every single movie from now on that is ever produced that contains sci-fi or supernatural elements to be both fact and true, and hence part of the religion of adrenalinism, and hence as atheists you are forbidden from watching such to remain true to your skeptical nature."
Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" in 1818 - the first Sci-Fi novel, essentially predicted organ transplants, biomechanics, and cybernetics. Jules Verne predicted the invention of the fax machine in "Around The World in 80 Days".
Arthur C. Clarke wrote about men on the moon, and going further afield to explore outer space; the film version of such, "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released a year before Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step For Man' in 1969. As far back as 1945, he postulated the idea of relay devices put into geosynchronous orbit above Earth, as a method of sending radio signals to other parts of the world. In 1945, just months after WWII. Twelve years before USSR's launch of Sputnik 1. Guess who was recruited as senior technical advisor to the project known as Telstar, in 1962? Telecommunications today would be nothing without Arthur C. Clarke, the Shakespeare of Sci-Fi.
"Colossus: The Forbin Project" in 1970 explored the concept of AIs years before even SkyNet in the "Terminator" films. It's known that Apple are doing research into Artificial Intelligence (as are the various R&D sections of other computer companies/DoD/CIA/NSA).
"WarGames" in 1983 was released before an internet as we know it existed. It's acknowledged as being responsible for the explosion in demand for home computers (especially Sir Clive Sinclair in the early 80s with his ZX80/81 & Spectrum), and later, the internet.
There's now CPUs created by US universities & computer companies (mainly IBM) that operate in the .5-1 THz range. Research into Neural Networks, and even DNA-based processors is ongoing. There's already early research into quantum processing. 'E.D.I.' within the UCAV in the 2005 film "Stealth" is now looking less & less improbable, eh?
Years before the concept of stealth aircraft were known, Craig Thomas postulated the concept (maybe based on rumours leaked from the Pentagon/DoD/Lockheed) in his 1977 novel "Firefox", made into a film in 1982 by Clint Eastwood. The F-117/A, B-2 and F-22 are well known today (and DeHavilland may have accidentally thought of the concept decades earlier with the wooden-constructed Mosquito in WWII - it was all but undetectable to enemy radar).
PROTIP: The Science Fiction of the past is the Science Fact of today.
"Ghost in the Shell". "Avatar". Just sayin'.
