Back to the Future Day: what the film got right about 2015
October 21, 2015 marks ‘Back to the Future Day’, the date Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) and Doctor ‘Doc’ Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) landed in the future from the 1980s time-travel film sequel.
In 1989’s Back to the Future Part II sequel to the original 1985 sci-fi comedy classic, time travellers Marty and Doc go forward from to a futuristic 2015.
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Hide AdThe exact time that Marty travels in Doc’s flying DeLorean into the future is 4.29pm on October 21, 2015.
Film fans around the world will mark the event which has become known as Back to the Future Day.
And did you know, Elijah Wood, made his film debut in “Back to the Future Part II”?
But what did Back to the Future get right about ‘the future’?:
Hoverboards
Wearable computing
Handheld tablet computers
Voice controlled computing
Drone filming news footage
Wall-mounted widescreen TVs
Video conferencing
Mobile credit card reader
Motion-sensing games controllers
The return of 3D to films
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Hide AdAnd the characters being consumed with personal electronics...
Sadly, hoverboards, as much as we might want them, haven’t ‘taken off’, yet.
In the film, Marty steals a hoverboard from a small girl on the street. It works everywhere except on water.
In the real 2015, hoverboards have yet to properly appear and the “real” ones only work on magnetic surfaces.
And don’t mention fax machines being the preferred form of communication, flying cars or double ties.