PART ONE: DEMOLITION MAN

The 1993 movie that accidentally gave us a 2026 technology forecast

Demolition Man isn’t about a singular, sentient AI overlord. Its genius lies in predicting a society governed by a pervasive, networked, and risk-averse machine intelligence. The AI is the law, the city infrastructure, and the cultural curator.

The central AI, which administers the “San Angeles” metropolis, fines citizens for swearing, governs self-driving cars, and has effectively abolished physical contact, red meat, and anything deemed “unsafe.

Released in 1993, the film throws John Spartan into a supposedly peaceful 2032 after he has been cryogenically frozen for decades. The future is deliberately exaggerated. Society has become sanitised, technology has become pervasive, and almost e ...