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In 1989, Marty McFly and his girlfriend hopped into Doctor Emmett Brown’s DeLorean and took a road trip to October 21, 2015, where they proceeded to do almost everything they could to destroy the time-space continuum without managing to end the universe once and for all.
I’m not going to act like I’m the first person on the Internet to go back and look at the predictions made in “Back To The Future II,” but I figured officially arriving in “the future” is as good of an excuse as any to look at all the things that are supposedly going to be invented 10 months from now.
It turns out the future isn’t as cool as we thought.
What’s already come true
Video glasses
This is one of the movie’s most impressive prophecies when you consider the writers were both able to predict the invention of Google Glass and how stupid you look while using it.
Hands-free video games
You might remember the scene where a tiny Elijah Wood makes fun of Marty for playing a video game that requires the use of your hands. What little Elijah didn’t know is while hands-free games do exist in 2015, you’re probably more likely to get made fun of for playing one.
The iPad
Most of the “true” predictions in “Back to the Future” revolve around the assumptions that computers would get increasingly smaller and be used in a wider variety of situations. That assumption turned out to be correct.
Video calls
The one thing “Back to the Future” failed to take into consideration is that humans seem to prefer avoiding real, actual interaction in favor of texts and email, but FaceTime and video conferencing are both things that exist in 2015. I have to give credit where credit is due.
What’s sort of come true
The hoverboard
Earlier this year, the Internet collectively pooped its pants when a company called HUVr released video of a number of celebrities (including Tony Hawk and Moby, for some reason) riding a hoverboard around a parking lot — a video that turned out to be fake.
After crushing the hopes and dreams of futurists everywhere, Tony Hawk starred in a video released in November featuring an actual hoverboard that’s nowhere near as cool as the one in the movie.
There’s a chance the technology will get exponentially better in the next few months, and there’s also a chance it won’t.
Flying cars
Flying cars have been a staple of futuristic predictions ever since people have been making predictions about the future, and one company claims it has made the future a reality. The only problem is the reality looks like this:
That’s a street-legal plane. Let’s try harder.
Shoes that tie themselves
Last year, a top designer at Nike said he expected Powerlace technology to show up by 2015, and I’d be a lot more likely to believe him if literally any more information had come out since then.
In November, a Kickstarter campaign was launched in the hopes of beating Nike to the punch, and it has already raised almost $90,000. This would be fantastic news if you ignored the fact that the page’s goal is $650,000, which must be met in the next 11 days.
Hydrating foods
You might not be able to turn a tiny circle into a freshly-cooked pizza right now, but there are definitely some chefs out there obsessed with molecular gastronomy who are doing what they can to make it a reality.
What we’re still waiting on
Self-drying clothes
Walking around with a battery-powered blow dryer shoved in the back of your pants just doesn’t work as well.
The USA Today Predictions
There are a few prophecies on the front page of the paper Marty picks up, including:
Slamball Playoffs
I’ve personally been rooting for the return of basketball played on trampolines for some time now, but something tells me it’s going to take more than a few months for the sport to finally hit the mainstream.
A female president
Based on the line of succession in the United States, something terrible would have to happen to eight leading political figures before Sally Jewell, the current Secretary of the Interior, would take office. There are some other scenarios that would make this more plausible, but they’re probably not going to happen.
Queen Diana
The only way this comes true is if Queen Elizabeth changes her name to Diana.
“Jaws 19″
We’re going to need 14 mores “Jaws” movies in the next 10 months for this to come true. I could see it happening.
The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series
I don’t know what’s funnier: the fact that the Cubs still haven’t won the World Series or the writers thinking the team would actually manage to pull it off.
The double tie
There’s a lot of weird clothing in “Back To The Future II,” but this is the one thing I really wish had caught on.
There’s still time. Let’s make it happen.
Read more: http://elitedaily.com/entertainment/back-to-the-future-2015-predictions/894758/
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