Happy Back To the Future Day!
Who knew that a movie made 30 years ago would cause such a commotion on one particular day in the future? The weird thing is that the future is finally here. On this date, October 21st, 2015, Marty McFly went to the future and discovered many new things. The funny thing is that a lot of the items in “the future” are actually here now. What did the movie get right and what are we still waiting for?
Correct Predictions
flat screen TVs …
Skype and Facetime … McFly talks to a friend, played by Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with a Skype-like program on his flat screen TV
3-D technology .. in the film, McFly walks past a 3-D hologram of “Jaws 19.”
hoverboards
dehydrated food
Incorrect Predictions
flying cars … Christopher Lloyd’s Doc character says: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
self-lacing shoes … Nike is working on developing these shoes
dominant fax machine culture
exercise bikes at cafes
time travel
Jaws 19 hasn’t happened, but the trailer has
If you have Amazon Prime you can stream all 3 movies for the entire month of October too!
Let’s go beyond Back To The Future and look at tech predictions for the year 2045
Sherry
