Modern Prophecy

2012 is over without event on a major scale, and it looks like the digital age is finally here. Nostradamus' prophecies may have been diluted through years of corruption, but hey, nobody's complaining. Some of it was (sadly) much anticipated stuff. 

This very small world we live in is a bundle full of teeming surprises, really. And i'm not talking about the iPhone 6. How about teleportation? Foldable OLED televisions. The 3d printers, real time optical camouflaging systems. The Large Hadron Collider. Think Bionic organs and lab-created meat - something that even the (now-fashionable) geeks would have trouble wrapping their minds around.  

When was the last time something gave you a sense of deja vu? A feeling you've been in this fantastic situation before, palpably real yet with an unmistakable sense of being a manufactured reality. A sense of blending with dream and existing actuality. Let me tell you, there is a high probability that it was a couple of years, or even months ago.. in a cinema hall. 

A generation will know what i'm talking about. Before the advent of the internet, (which, by the way - is really a grenade with information used as the explosive) - convincing alternate realities immortalized in comics and movies were probably the only 'organic' mind stimulants for the masses. It was simpler then. Most got to watch the already-set up stage we were born into. But a select few got to set up a stage themselves, and thus chisel the future - in the minds of their impressionable audiences - the good old creative folks.

1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day. The machines gain sentience - a reality not many would have anticipated to manifest. But here's the fun part - not only the technology that was imagined, but the events leading up to the development of such technology have somehow all fallen into place like a giant jigsaw puzzle with major world events serving as a backdrop, even as increasingly imaginative works of fiction continue to 'inspire' the mass-cultured population. 

How was this possible? Because those who thought ahead of their time, thankfully, managed to film it (or make a game out of it) as well. On further exploration of this phenomena, you might come to understand that the impact of the movies on the real world can be seen now in one of two ways. As mere cause and effect, or in retrospect - as Modern Prophecy.