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100 years of sci-fi imagining the future, checked against reality

A century ago, Germany produced Metropolis (1927), the very first cinematic blueprint for tomorrow. At Redstone, we know that before a groundbreaking technology becomes a startup, it usually begins as science fiction. To celebrate this 100-year milestone, we scored 270 classic titles across film, television, books, and games to see how much of yesterday’s imagination is today’s engineering. Explore the data to see which eras predicted the future best, and where the hardest technical challenges still remain.