Often it’s the films that don’t try to predict the future that end up doing so. We don’t have Back to the Future‘s self-drying jacket or “Jaws 19”, but we do have Airplane II‘s full-body scanners and The Simpsons‘ presidential-candidate-Donald-Trump. Pixar’s 2008 hit animated film WALL·E falls somewhere in between. The movie acted as more of a warning than a prediction – reminding us all to pick up our rubbish and go for a jog lest we end up fat (and for some reason, sockless) blobs on a collosal spaceship – but already many of its dystopian visions have come true.
And guys, it’s only 2016. Eight years after the movie was made and 789 years before it was set, we are living in Pixar’s future (except, again, for the socks thing). Here’s how.
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