Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey has been voted the science fiction movie with the most realistic vision of the future.
Sky Movies asked scientists from leading universities including Oxford, St Andrews and King's College London, to consider the visions of the future portrayed in sci-fi films and decide which was the most likely to come true.
Professor Mark Brake from the University of Glamorgan, who was polled in the survey, claimed: "2001 raised science fiction cinema to a new level. The unfolding four-million-year filmic story brilliantly portrays Arthur C. Clarke's disturbing man-machine encounter with HAL; a computer turned murderer.
"This unsettling scenario is not something we would ever want to imagine happening in reality, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility that artificial intelligence could turn on its creators."
Ridley Scott's iconic film Blade Runner was also rated highly by the scientists, with experts claiming its genetic-engineered 'replicants' were a very real possibility in the future.
Professor Stephen Hsu, from the University of Oregon, said: "There is every reason to believe that technology will someday permit us to genetically engineer human-like life forms like the 'replicants' in Blade Runner."
25/05/2008 14:33:25
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