Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Ever wondered what movies, videogames and TV shows get right – and hilariously wrong – about the future?
Join author, game developer and critic Adrian Hon as he takes you on a thrilling tour through seven iconic objects from speculative screen worlds. From Minority Report’s gesture-based tech to Death Stranding’s exoskeleton and Paprika’s DC Mini dream machine, each item opens a window into our shared hopes, fears and curiosities about tomorrow. Discover how these on-screen creations are both fantastic and oddly familiar, reflecting our evolving relationship with technology and what it reveals about us all.
Adrian Hon is a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start, co-creator of the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game Zombies, Run! with ten million players. He wrote a critique of gamification called, You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All and the sci-fi novel A History of the Future in 100 Objects. Adrian’s work has been featured at MOMA and the V&A, and he’s consulted for Disney Imagineering and The British Museum. Before becoming a game designer, Adrian was a neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at Cambridge, UCSD and Oxford.
02:37 DEATH STRANDING Exoskeleton
08:47 MINORITY REPORT Gestural Control
19:00 WESTWORLD Androids
27:05 STAR TREK Frigates
31:40 SYSTEM SHOCK Neural Interface
37:00 PAPRIKA DC Mini
41:49 SLIDERS Parallel Universe Timer
50:17 Audience Q&A
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Ever wondered what movies, videogames and TV shows get right – and hilariously wrong – about the future?
Join author, game developer and critic Adrian Hon as he takes you on a thrilling tour through seven iconic objects from speculative screen worlds. From Minority Report’s gesture-based tech to Death Stranding’s exoskeleton and Paprika’s DC Mini dream machine, each item opens a window into our shared hopes, fears and curiosities about tomorrow. Discover how these on-screen creations are both fantastic and oddly familiar, reflecting our evolving relationship with technology and what it reveals about us all.
Adrian Hon is a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start, co-creator of the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game Zombies, Run! with ten million players. He wrote a critique of gamification called, You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All and the sci-fi novel A History of the Future in 100 Objects. Adrian’s work has been featured at MOMA and the V&A, and he’s consulted for Disney Imagineering and The British Museum. Before becoming a game designer, Adrian was a neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at Cambridge, UCSD and Oxford.
02:37 DEATH STRANDING Exoskeleton
08:47 MINORITY REPORT Gestural Control
19:00 WESTWORLD Androids
27:05 STAR TREK Frigates
31:40 SYSTEM SHOCK Neural Interface
37:00 PAPRIKA DC Mini
41:49 SLIDERS Parallel Universe Timer
50:17 Audience Q&A
_____________________
ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture. Watch, play, make and discover a universe of films, TV, videogames and screen-based art.
Visit us in Melbourne’s Fed Square or online at www.acmi.net.au.
Follow us
Facebook: facebook.com/acmionline
Instagram: instagram.com/acmionline
Twitter: twitter.com/ACMI
www.acmi.net.au
