While this is old news to many, in case you somehow missed it, today is Back to the Future Day! In the 1989 movie, Marty McFly travels from the year 1985 (the time of the original film) to the future with Doc Brown to help prevent his kids from making a mistake. They arrive in Hill Valley on October 21, 2015 at 4:29pm to discover wide-screen TVs, holographic googles, flying cars, Jaws 19, self-lacing shoes, and a much more accurate weather service. It's easy to look at the "real" future and consider it a failure, yet in many ways the current technology has outpaced the 1989 predictions. There's no reference to the internet, smartphones, or instantaneous information, and much of the false Back of the Future-future design seems to be overly ridiculous extrapolations of the 80s. We have no flying cars, though would we really want them anyway?
Of course, now that we've finally arrived in the future, it raises a great question: what would 30 years from now look like? Will it be (like the gap from 1985 to 2015) mostly the same with a gap in internet and information technology behind the scenes...or will there be some new invention to totally rethink our daily lives? If only there was a Back to the Future IV to help us predict....
Of course, now that we've finally arrived in the future, it raises a great question: what would 30 years from now look like? Will it be (like the gap from 1985 to 2015) mostly the same with a gap in internet and information technology behind the scenes...or will there be some new invention to totally rethink our daily lives? If only there was a Back to the Future IV to help us predict....
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