
Science fiction novels and films have long predicted 2021 – some, better than others. We have to admit that Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 adaptation of P.D. James’ novel Children of Men got a lot more right than the one other masterpiece set in 2021, the 1995 Keanu Reeves thriller Johnny Mnemonic, which posited that Keanu Reeves’ brain had the storage capacity of a mid-range iPhone.