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While handle-less Segways and IO Hawks try to corner the hoverboard market, no one has succeeded in making skateboards or even scooters levitate. Other predictions have failed to come to fruition. To paraphrase David Bowie, the future is truly open wide.

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(No sign of a Ronald Reagan one, though maybe we should wait for 2016.) Even the Cubs winning the World Series is possible, as they're currently playing in the National League Championship Series. The avatars of celebrities that served Marty at 'Café 80s' have come to pass in their own way, as holograms of Michael Jackson and Tupac have graced stages worldwide.

The same goes for video chats, a standard feature on any phone or computer, and 'video glasses,' which are some combination of virtual reality and Google Glass. It might have seemed nuts at the time of the film's release to imagine opening doors and paying bills with a thumbprint, for example, but it's perfectly in line with current iPhone technology. The first film leapt 30 years into the past, so it only made sense to leap 30 years into the future in the second.Īnd many of its seemingly far-out predictions have come eerily close to hitting the mark. But Back to the Future Part II had to be close enough to 1985 that Marty (Michael J. Most movies set in the future jump far enough ahead to be completely removed from modern society, or at least don't peg a specific date to the action at hand (see: The Martian, Her).

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(Note: These aren't quite all the predictions the movie made, but if you're truly interested in dust-repellent paper, I cannot help you.) More importantly, Back to the Future II speculated on what 2015 was going to look like, and there is nothing fandom loves more than picking apart the object of its affection for sport.Īs the below matrix shows, though, not all of Back to the Future's predictions were total shots in the dark. It is a hugely ambitious movie that envisions several parallel worlds all at once, and even if it's not always successful, it can't be faulted for a lack of imagination.

Writer/director Robert Zemeckis and co-writer Bob Gale went from 1985 to 2015, back to an alternate 1985 for a dystopian nightmare sidebar, and then further back still to the 1955 they had crashed in the first movie. Universalīack to the Future was content to travel from 1985 back to 1955, but Back to the Future Part II zipped every which way, just because it could. Fox) rolls her eyes into her phone/visor. It is definitely Back to the Future Day.īut what does that actually mean? And, more importantly, why do we care? Back to the Future Part II took some big swings when imagining 2015 - but not all of them were so far off Marlene McFly (Michael J. Rejoice, nerds: Today is October 21, 2015, which means it's officially the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived from the past in the 1989 film Back to the Future II.