The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies—As Chosen By Scientists – Popular Mechanics

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies—As Chosen By Scientists

Not necessarily the ones I would have expected – the criterion seems to be “what made an impression on me as a scientist or scientist-to-be” rather than what impressed them with its scientific accuracy.

The latter would make for an interesting article in itself, but this is interesting too. After all, one of the major functions of science fiction is to explore potential or hypothetical technological developments and their effects on humanity – surveying hard SF as a whole, it clearly matters less whether the technology is strictly within the limits of known physics than what humans would do with it and in response to it.