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Honestly, I think this is the way to go - you’re never going to be able to predict the future accurately, so why not just have fun with it?
#11 Make everything at least 50 years in the future, so at least you will be dead and won’t have to hear “why there are no hover-boards and self tying sneakers”.
Or just make a sci-fi film that’s not overly concerned with trying to predict the unpredictable. It’s fiction.
The flip side of this? Embrace the crazy. Look at Back to the Future 2 - 2015 was designed to be bright and colorful and wildly inaccurate as possible. And yet, it looks shockingly plausible - despite, well you know, it being 2015 and looking nothing like that.
This is good advice for the most part, but is it really your place to say that the fax machine in BTTF and the Pay Phones in Blade Runner detract from the movie? Hardly. It’s a creative vision.
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