No matter what happens with changes in society, technology, or even spirituality, it can be tailored for the current audience. Hollywood's tailors may follow fashionable trends, but they don't always stitch the right pattern. A series of flops in any other genre would herald its hiatus. Sci-fi allows you to see something you've never seen before. Science-fiction cinema was born out of a need for modern collective campfire stories to celebrate heroes, Mr. Christian says.
Fantastic plots let sci-fi filmmakers explore themes such as the environment and war.
It is a common saying that science fiction predicts the future. But that really is not the case. Thought-provoking science fiction examines who we are as a people in the present and where we are headed. These themes don't seem outlandish in light of advances in biological nanotechnology and the publicized experiments of a British scientist who interfaces with his computer through a silicon chip implant in his arm. Science fiction of the future has to have a moment of hope, not pure despair.