The best technology moments in film

Moon … Gerty: 'Finally, a cold emotionless robot that isn't a deranged psychopath! The technology allowing it to move around on rails is plausible, as is its straightforward emoticon interface (and cup holder!)' – @lexusperplexus
Photograph: Public Domain

Westworld … 'For near human looking robots (will they ever get those hands right?)' – @ludders
Photograph: Kobal

Silent Running … Bruce Dern with one of the robots – @SingerScientist
Photograph: Kobal

Soylent Green … Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson. The film 'was this close to nailing how mobile phones would work properly' – @Spinky
Photograph: Kobal

Children Of Men … 'An utterly believable next step for how London streets will look' – @StephanoBentos
Photograph: Rex Features

Primer … 'Low budget flick about time travel. It must be scientifically and technologically plausible to the extreme because I've seen it three times already and I still don't get it. I mean, the hi-tech lingo alone took me a couple of hours on Wikipedia, for the plot resolution you'll have to be related to Heisenberg' – @nishville
Photograph: Public Domain

Colossus: The Forbin Project … 'A computer takes over the world (successfully) by tricking man stage by stage. Brilliant film. Shame it premiered same year as 2001, so it got a bit overshadowed' – @woodsome49
Photograph: Rex Features

Contact … 'By far the most scientifically convíncing sci-fi film I've ever seen. The science is spot-on' – @Grozbat
Photograph: Kobal

Johnny Mnemonic … 'A rubbish film, but the scene where Johnny interacts with the internet in 3D predates Minority Report, and was I think a pretty good visualisatuon of how it might work (arm strain and RSI issues aside)' – @jforbes
Photograph: Kobal

Hackers … 'Phoning up a company he's trying to hack posing as a network admin was clever and realistic. The UI was wacky but it was clearly meant as cinematic effect and not trying to be real' – @Chaka1
Photograph: The Kobal Collection/kobal-collection.com

The Bourne Supremacy … 'When Bourne wants to find out about that Russian politician he killed, he doesn't have to do any fancy hacking – he just Googles the bloke's name' – @hvp11
Photograph: Universal/Allstar

War Games … Matthew Broderick communicates with WOPR, a US military supercomputer, using the real technology of the time (the film was released in 1983)
Photograph: Kobal

Antitrust … 'Sort of adequately depicts the open source programming scene' – @Anduin
Photograph: The Kobal Collection/kobal-collection.com

The Island … 'I liked the interactive desktop. Apparently that technology is very close' – @Kerbdog
Photograph: Kobal

Runaway … 'Guns with bullets that go around corners – I still think they would be possible if someone put some effort in' – @Spinky
Photograph: Kobal