Cinema Special

The AI Chronicles — Cinema Special

Volume 1 — released 7 September 2026

1968: Stanley Kubrick films HAL 9000. 2023: Gareth Edwards films The Creator. In between, sixty years of AI cinema. Twenty cinema essays — real long-form editorial pieces of 3,500 to 5,000 words, not dry technical sheets — analyse what filmmakers got right, missed, or invented. Forty 2075 short stories extend each film: one dystopia, one utopia. A meta-lesson closes each cycle. Total: 64 articles published over 9 months.

The manifesto

« 2025-2030 is the hinge. Not 2050, not 2075. Cinema spent sixty years imagining this moment — it is time to re-read the films in the light of what we can do this morning. »

The 20 cinema essays

Twenty films analysed in three cycles: Founders (1968-1989), Classics (1995-2009), Contemporary (2009-2026). The /30 prophecy score is awarded on each article's publication: it measures three axes (technological anticipation, social anticipation, philosophical accuracy).

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#01
Coming

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Prophecy —
#02
Coming

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

Prophecy —
#03
Coming

Westworld

1973

Prophecy —
#04
Coming

Blade Runner / 2049

1982 / 2017

Prophecy —
#05
Coming

Tron (saga incl. Ares 2025)

1982 / 2010 / 2025

Prophecy —
#06
Coming

WarGames

1983

Prophecy —
#07
Coming

Terminator (saga)

1984→

Prophecy —
#08
⭐ Animated Coming

Ghost in the Shell

1995

Prophecy —
#09
Coming

Gattaca

1997

Prophecy —
#10
Coming

The Matrix (saga)

1999→

Prophecy —
#11
Coming

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

Prophecy —
#12
Coming

Minority Report

2002

Prophecy —
#13
Coming

I, Robot

2004

Prophecy —
#14
⭐ Animated Coming

WALL-E

2008

Prophecy —
#15
Coming

Moon

2009

Prophecy —
#16
Coming

Her

2013

Prophecy —
#17
Coming

Ex Machina

2014

Prophecy —
#18
⭐ Animated Coming

Big Hero 6

2014

Prophecy —
#19
Coming

M3GAN / M3GAN 2.0

2022 / 2025

Prophecy —
#20
Coming

The Creator

2023

Prophecy —

Forty 2075 short stories

Each film inspires two stories: a dystopia that pushes the film's fear to its conclusion, a utopia that takes the opposite bet. Recurring characters by family lineages (Ferreira, Hoffmann, Chen, Music, Vasquez, Nakamura, Soulier). Recurring places: Lisbon, Lyon, Paris, Singapore, Taipei, Pentagon. Format ~5,000 words — Asimov / Bradbury style.

Three meta-lessons

Top 5 prophecies fulfilled

What cinema saw correctly — and what arrived faster than the screenwriters imagined.

Top 5 blind spots

What cinema did not see coming — and what radically changes the way we use AI.

Top 5 disproportionate fears

The panics fed by sixty years of films, and what 2026 reality forces us to recalibrate.

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