"Those of us of a certain age will remember when technology was slow to evolve but reassuringly familiar: our TVs may not have been flat screen but they lasted seemingly forever. Now technology moves in the blink of an eye. Every other day there’s a new phone model, an important new update or a shiny new gadget that promises to make our lives easier.
The films in this year’s Late Night Sci-Fi programme shows us the consequences of what happens when technology outpaces humanity. Often the worlds they present seem familiar yet also strange and alien with our society ’20 minutes into the future’. They deal with prescient concerns – the rise of AI and how people worry about their own obsolescence – but these films also celebrate the adaptability of humanity and how we abide – and even thrive – when things seem to be moving by at a million light years a second.

• Laurence Boyce