💛 What to Watch About Technology

We've put together a selection of movies from the 90s and early 2000s about the future and technology. These films are perfect for home viewing and show how the pre-smartphone, pre-AI era imagined the digital world, intelligent machines, and virtual reality.

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🟡 Bicentennial Man (1999). A household robot assistant begins to experience emotions and strives to become human. The film follows his journey from a domestic machine to a being demanding rights.

🟡 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In the future, a childlike robot capable of love is created. After being abandoned by his family, he embarks on a journey to become "real" and win back his mother's love.

🟡 The Iron Giant (1999). A boy discovers a giant robot that has fallen from the sky and hides him from the military. Gradually, it's revealed that the machine was built as a weapon, but it can choose its own path.

🟡 Hackers (1995). A group of teenage hackers accidentally uncovers a major corporate conspiracy. The film vividly depicts early internet culture, computer hacking, and the battle of individuals against big systems in the era of modems and floppy disks.

🟡 The Lawnmower Man (1992). Researchers use virtual reality and brain experiments to enhance an ordinary man's intelligence. As his abilities grow, the technology spirals out of control, leading to dangerous consequences in both the real and digital worlds.

🟡 The Thirteenth Floor (1999). Scientists create a virtual city populated by digital characters who don't realize they're living in a simulation. While investigating a murder, they discover their own reality may also be part of a more complex computer model.

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