The Most Important Movie for Thinking About the Future

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. As the editor of Future Tense, I have a few rules for writers. Chief among them: You're not allowed to open with a scary or utopian scenario and then write, "It sounds like science fiction, but …" And you need a very good reason to reference some of the biggest works of science fiction--1984, Brave New World, Gattaca, Minority Report, Terminator. Also, please avoid references to the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break things." But if I don't, every article starts to sound the same: dystopian.