--- description: The actor said his new movie could be fact and not science fiction sooner than we think title: Johnny Depp: Transcendence is Becoming Reality image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6a1b9265141aa02/69868b4335ba6f11b2c0191c/johnny-depp.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Johnny Depp Thinks _Transcendence_ Could Happen by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 18, 2014 12:20 PM CUT  Johnny Depp at the "Transcendence" Premiere at Village Theater in Los Angeles, April 10\. 2014. Johnny Depp at the "Transcendence" Premiere at Village Theater in Los Angeles, April 10\. 2014.Jenna Blake—Corbis by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 18, 2014 12:20 PM CUT The star of the new film _Transcendence_, about a man whose body dies but whose consciousness lives on in a computer, thinks we’re close to having that kind of technology become more than a movie plot. “When you look at it’s kind of a sci-fi thing,” Johnny Depp said in an interview with [MTV News](http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1726392/johnny-depp-thinks-technology-transcendence-very-close-being-reality.jhtml "undefined"). “But when you dig a little bit deeper the technology that we use in the film… is very close to becoming a reality and will be a reality in the next 30 years. “\[_Transcendence_\] is a foretelling of what’s to come,” Depp added. Well, let’s think. [Watch-phones ](http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5619724/samsung-android-wear-watch-and-google-less-phone-coming-this-year "undefined")have become a reality. [Robo-cops](http://time.com/65021/robot-cop/ "undefined") are on the horizon. Maybe Depp is right and humans as computers are next up. But if _Terminator_ taught us anything, we should be worried. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/67957/johnny-depp-thinks-transcendence-could-happen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/67957/johnny-depp-thinks-transcendence-could-happen/"},"headline":"Johnny Depp Thinks Transcendence Could Happen","datePublished":"2014-04-18T12:20:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:22:43.974Z","description":"The actor said aspects of the new movie, about a man whose body dies but whose consciousness lives on in a computer, could be fact and not science fiction a lot sooner than we think. “[Transcendence] is a foretelling of what’s to come,” he says.","url":"https://time.com/67957/johnny-depp-thinks-transcendence-could-happen/","keywords":["movies","films","Johnny Depp"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6a1b9265141aa02/69868b4335ba6f11b2c0191c/johnny-depp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6a1b9265141aa02/69868b4335ba6f11b2c0191c/johnny-depp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Johnny Depp at the \"Transcendence\" Premiere at Village Theater in Los Angeles, April 10. 2014.","caption":"Johnny Depp at the \"Transcendence\" Premiere at Village Theater in Los Angeles, April 10. 2014.","creditText":"Jenna Blake—Corbis","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/67957/johnny-depp-thinks-transcendence-could-happen/","name":"Johnny Depp Thinks Transcendence Could Happen"}}]}] ```