This is Bertalan Mesko and you are watching the channel of The Medical Futurist.

I'm a science fiction movie geek, to be honest. I think I've seen all the major and even the

minor movies from the 1920s. So I thought that I would share those 10 movies in science

fiction with you which I think give quite a good picture about what we can expect to

see in the next years, in the future of medicine. Let's start with The Fifth Element released

in 1997 by Luc Besson in which we can see 3D printing in action. In that movie, not

just organs or human tissues, but a whole human body was printed out by using the blueprint,

the DNA behind that. In the same year, another movie was released

called Gattaca that demonstrated the dark future of genomics with genetically "inferior"

people. It shows what happens if we do not prepare the society for the challenges genomics

will provide in the future. The third movie I have in mind is Eternal

Sunshine of the Spotless Mind released in 2004. What if we could erase parts from our

memories or add new ones? I'm pretty sure the makers of the movie did not have optogenetics

in mind as a method back then, but we are truly moving towards an era when these things

become possible. The 4th movie is Inception by Christopher

Nolan released in 2010 in which we can upload or download data from our minds, but the movie

is mostly about the implantation of another person's idea into someone else's subconscious

mind. The 5th movie is Prometheus. With the advancements

of robotic interventions in surgery, we can expect that we will be able to develop robots

that can perform operations themselves without even the human supervision

The 6th one is Robot & Frank released in 2012. In an aging society, it is going to be a more

and more important and challenging process to take care of the elderly population. This

movie focuses on a robot with artificial intelligence that can do this job in almost a human way.

Then here is Cloud Atlas by the Wachowski brothers. This unique film shows the use of

a real medical tricorder just like in Star Trek. A small device that can analyze, spot

and detect diseases as well as, obviously, cure them right there.

Then in 2013, a movie called Elysium was published and released. In a futuristic world where

there is no sickness mostly due to the multi-functional radiology machine that checks your body in

seconds, tells you what disease you have, or what percentage of your cells are cancerous,

and then it cures you immediately. Then there is a new movie released by Terry

Gilliam, The Zero Theorem in which the character played by Christopher Waltz is diagnosed with

several conditions by Dr. Shrink-ROM demonstrating telemedicine at its best and worst.

And the last one, but not least, Lucy released in 2014 by Luc Besson which depicts a woman

played by Scarlett Johansson who gains psychokinetic abilities from a synthetic drug called CPH4

being absorbed into her bloodstream leading to increased physical and mental capabilities

such as telepathy or mental time travel. In my new book, The Guide to the Future of

Medicine, after every chapter focusing on trends and technologies, I also share what

movies talk about these topics in details. I hope that you will share your favorite movies

in the comment section under this video or on the Facebook page of The Medical Futurist!

Thank you!