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How WALL-E predicted the future

4 mins | Apr 26, 2022
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The film's dystopia has proven surprisingly accurate. We haven't quite left Earth yet, but for a movie released in 2008, it's pretty impressive (and worrying) how much Wall-E has gotten right about our future. Similarly to how humans do in the film, most of our communication today happens through screens. And climate change is as big a concern as it has ever been. Alex Webb delves deeper into the eerie coincidences.

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