Name: Futurist Reviews Futuristic Movies, from 'The Matrix' to 'WALL-E' | Vanity Fair
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I'm a futurist and an award-winning author.

and the founder of The Future Today Institute.

Today we're going to be reviewing some scenes from movies

So I get a lot of questions about my job.

A futurist is somebody who methodically explores signals

and data in order to anticipate what might come next.

but we certainly track everything that's happening

in the present, and try to imagine what might be next.

This is "Blade Runner 2049" directed by Denis Villeneuve.

comes from a story written by Phillip K. Dick

who's a super genius in the world of science fiction

is that he's taking a psychological test,

but the psychological test is actually looking

to see whether there's corruption in his system,

the test to tell whether or not somebody is human

Can the human tell whether or not the machine is human?

But in this case, this test is about proving

that the machine is, in fact, a machine and not human.

- [Man] Have you ever been in an institution?

- When we think about artificial intelligence and,

you know, "Blade Runner" is all about self-aware AI,

So we tend to put that AI inside of a human container,

right, a body, and then the rest of the story is,

you know, what does it mean to interact with somebody

You know, the porous boundaries between humans and machines.

But at the end of the day, we're already surrounded

and sometimes that AI goes rogue, and sometimes it doesn't.

I mean, in a way, even without the flying cars

and always-nighttime-raining situation, we're sort of living

bits and pieces of "Blade Runner" in our everyday lives.

We just don't recognize that that's what's happening.

This is "Gattaca", directed by Andrew Niccols.

It's the story of a society in which genetic manipulation

is commonplace, and people are in a constant quest

- [Man] I'll never understand what possessed to my mother

to put her faith in God's hands, rather than those

- So what's so interesting about this movie

And in this movie, it's also kind of about aliens,

it's just that the aliens are the natural-born humans,

anybody who hasn't been edited is the mutant,

So this movie is all about the future of genetic engineering

some of you might remember Dolly the sheep.

People were really upset that scientists had figured out

and had advanced the science enough to genetically,

not just modify, but copy another living being,

The Pope made a special edict, President Clinton had to have

and reassure the American public that, don't worry,

clones are not going to be just roaming around

- Neurological condition, 60% probability.

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