Lot's of today's innovations in technology have been envisioned in Sci-Fi stories and designed first for Sci-Fi movies. Think exoskeletons, talking computers, artifical intelligence, ... Even today's user interfaces on gadgets such as tablets get some of their inspirations from movies.
In UI techdom, we see "Minority Report" as one of the few defining UI innovation movies, with several breakthroughs such as translucent glass screens and of course Tom Cruise's "maestro like" gesture interactions with the system.
