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Visions of the future also made their way onto movie screens. Fritz Lang directed one of
the most famous movies about tomorrow's world, Metropolis, filmed in 1926. The movie
featured a city that was run by a giant "heart machine"moviedom's first computer villain.
This "heart machine" forced people to work in cruel underground factories. At the film's
end, the people destroy the machine and are free again.
In 1936, H.G. Wells wrote the film Things To Come, took viewers through 100 years of
prophecies. Wells made a mistake predicting the date of the first moon landing. He thought
it would be in 2036; While Wells focused mainly on our planets trusted companion, the
moon, his prediction actually seems to more accurate for the year that humans will first
land on Mars! Elon Musk, the face of SpaceX company, predicts his company will have
humans on the Red Planet by 2025. While this prediction might seem hopeful, Musk is
taking it one step farther. He is revealing his architectural plans for the complete
colonization of the planet in the fall of 2016.