9 Things 'Starship Troopers' Correctly Predicted About Today's Tech
All of the students in Starship Troopers use tablet computers (though they're still as thick as tech from the 90s)
Based on the stylus, it looks like the Surface Pro beats the iPad in the Starship Troopers universe.
The movie's government ads are a pretty accurate portrayal of today's visual web, using a combination of interactive links and videos.
Multi-user video chat from around the world with no lag. It's like Google Hangouts.
You'd think that discs would be outdated in the future, but it actually makes sense. When you have ships that can travel faster than light, sending data wirelessly (which can only move at the speed of light) is slow in comparison. In fact, with today's tech, physically sending media like SD cards has a higher "bandwidth" than the entire Internet is capable of.
If you've ever been dumped via text (or worse, Snapchat), you know how accurate this scene is.
With things like Android letting you sign in by using your face and rumors of the next iPhone having a fingerprint scanner, it's pretty clear that Starship Troopers was right when it assumed we wouldn't be using passwords to sign into our computers in the future.
Both robot-assisted surgery and printing organs either taking place in some capacity or are making great strides towards becoming a reality in the lab.
Like today's military, the Federation in Starship Troopers uses renewable energy because of its versatility and easier logistics. After all, it's easier to put up a wind turbine than to constantly ship in fuel.
Even though it came out earlier, this one's even more spot-on
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