Things I have learned from SF movies

Introducing human personality traits into your computer is a bad idea.

When using ex-military technology it is important to disable the lethal-killer mode very thoroughly.

The only musical genres in the future will be classical, jazz and 70's disco music.

In the future there will be no fat or ugly people.

Any biologist can whip up an antidote to any disease with nothing but a microscope and a petri dish, as long as they can find the original vector.

Mining colonies are incredibly dangerous places.

Other planets all have a single language, religion and currency.

95% of planets have a breathable earthlike athmosphere.

Parasite host specificity is confined to Earth.

Nothing important should be left in the control of an AI.

People in the future will not bother to label or backup their data discs/tapes/crystals.

Nobody who lives through an apocalyptic event has ever read any post-apocalyptic fiction.

Largely assisted by "Supernova".