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Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels from 1985 to tomorrow — October 21, 2015. The occasion is being noted in a couple of ways. A documentary called Back In Time debuts tomorrow that will chronicle the making of the Back to the Future trilogy. There are also screenings of the films around the world, and even a tour of locations from the film. Much to director Robert Zemeckis's dismay, everybody's judging the predictive accuracy of the films. "I always hated — and I still don't like — movies about the future. I just think they're impossible, and somebody's always keeping score." For example: "big-screen TVs, yes, Mr. Fusion, no; virtual-reality goggles, yes, Jaws 19, no." On the other hand, people are keeping an eye on the baseball playoffs — the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs, something they haven't managed since 1908. The Cubs actually did make the playoffs this year, and are fighting for a league championship title at the moment of this writing.
We still don't have #&@!% flying cars, but we do have nifty tablets to read USA Today on, unlike the flick's paper version.
Hover-boards? Well, kind of, if you count big and noisy. 3D pop-out sharks? Well, kind of, if you are at the right spot (although automated eye position tracking is improving).
Table-ized A.I.
Every prediction is fiction. Witness the entire output of the uncritical gee-wizz Space Age nonsense industry.
Posting from Australia.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Marty McFly: Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
I miss the libertarian future that never was...
Hopefully we still can manage to get a cyberpunk dystopia.
The first and foremost "failed prediction" was that time travel would be invented in 1985.
Doubt they anticipated a DeLorean V8 Supercar
http://www.speedcafe.com/2015/10/21/prodrive-reveals-delorean-v8-supercar/
Amazingly, Chris Lloyd is right. Fax machines today are still for sale on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Brother-...
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Is that because *your* history started on the day you were born, in 2001?
GTFO
Oh, really?
Suddenly I want to see this.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
"The first and foremost "failed prediction" was that time travel would be invented in 1985."
It's not a failed prediction. It happens that someone came from 2025 and hid the issue.
You know, I love that movie, the way they shot it. It’s so urm like futuristic, you know?
The War of 1812... the good 'ol days when the federal government actually tried to save New Orleans.
Then the car would be driverless and Google would insist it travelled through time and we'd all believe them and say that time travelling cars will fill the roads within half a decade even though there has been no independent testing and the only footage observed is of time travel to destinations so mundane one can't relay tell when they are at all.
... seeing how Jaws 16, 17 and 18 were really derivative.
I like the actual SF elements - they spent real effort on imagining minor changes and appropriate set dressing. I always liked that his job sucked so much he had to wear two neckties - predictive miss, perhaps, but a nice touch. I also liked their comment on the rise of biometrics, with the headline "thumb bandits strike again". Lots of cool details that they could have just ignored, and it really made the point by contrast that people will still be the same jerks as always.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I saw a video yesterday that claimed that BTTF predicted 9/11. Sad part is some people actually believe this shot.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Definitely one of the more pitiful ways to assert dominance on Slashdot. I guess claiming you don't have a TV has gotten old.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
You guys didn't post one article about the new Star Wars trailer yesterday, and you are barely late to the game on this [snip] story (It's been weeks in the making).
I have a feeling of déjà-vu. Did you time travel from 1999 ?
I can't wait for the dupe later this week.
By the way, today is 'Back to The Future' Day on this side of the Atlantic.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
i wonder if we know eachother...
Im from Penrith NSW
I had read that Zemeckis and Gale didn't want to try to "accurately" predict what would be future possible because people would just nitpick it and it was all going to be wrong anyway. They were pretty sure we would NOT have flying cars, but they really wanted flying cars, so they decided to just have fun with it and come up with funny predictions. Hoverboards, self-drying clothing, self-tying laces, etc.
Donnie Darko...
Not your parent, but I'm posting from the food court in Westmead Parramatta, Sydney.
By the way, today is 'Back to The Future' Day on this side of the Atlantic.
Today has been Back to the Future Day on this side of the Pacific for 15 hours as I write this.
Hahaha, Slashdot is dead because there wasn't an article on a new entry in a dead series that no-one gives a fuck about?
Well, Rest in Peace. Maybe we can get some real discussion going with all the tards gone.
:)) sorry I relate to it,
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>"the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs"
No, it fucking doesn't.
The movie is not a prediction. It's fiction.
Many of things in the movie were intended as humor. Jaws 19 is making fun of the movie industry's pattern of making sequels to shitty movies.
And poking fun at the Cubs. Hey, they're such pathetic losers that 30 years from now they'll FINALLY win a world series.
With Jaws 19, they merely forgot how many shitty movies there are to run through. It isn't a matter of if Jaws 19 will be made, but of when.
Hmm. Maybe it's about time for another Batman movie. Perhaps we'll just rehash his origin story again.
The movie was right. Marty and doc Brown did travel to 2015 and saw the 2015 as it had to be. But then, they traveled far back, then they went back to the future - their 1988 present. Unfortunately in between 2015 and 1988 they modified the "new" past (of 2015) which gave the boring and hoverboard-less 2015 we all live now.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I was going to point out the boring predictable reboots of reboots happening. It might as well be "Jaws 19" or "Star Trek 27 Rebooted".
I blame "The Matrix Rebooted".
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Ahh Cool!
And here I was thinking I was about the only /.er around here.
Star Wars TNG
My prediction? The occasion will be "noted" by a series of themed jokes flooding your Facebook status. We're a day-ish ahead here in Australia and it's been going on all morning.
Forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" box that time, champ.
Now lie and say you did it on purpose. Then weep with shame. Oh, I see you're already on that...
Looks like Griff is planning something for tomorrow night...
Marty McFly Jr: https://twitter.com/mseamusmcflyjr
Marlene McFly: https://twitter.com/mcflygirl
Griff: https://twitter.com/bionic_griff
Griff's girl: https://twitter.com/SpikeYourBalls
Even the cops noticed something was up.
http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/mountisa/2015/10/21/traffic-crash-mount-isa-cbd/
Might have been tomorrow yesterday. It wasn't obvious this was a stupid headline as you were typing it? Or is this some joke on the inability to see into the future?
I gave a fuck, because when the movie came out I was in university and felt like an adult.
Now I just feel old.
Or... it has already been used to change history. The just, egalitarian 2015 where almost everyone led happy prosperous lives was lost to us when history was tweaked to concentrate all the wealth into the hands of a minority.
We'll never know.
What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.
The War of 1812... the good 'ol days when the federal government actually tried to save New Orleans.
Jaws 19 would have been better than "Zombie Apocalypse 402".
The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
No, actually I was trampolining your mom, it was double coupon day.
Great Scott!
I don't suppose anyone else played Chrystalis on the "END DAY" back in 1998? I think yesterday was the anniversary, too.
I played it that day just for that.
Is that because *your* history started on the day you were born, in 2001?
GTFO
"Make like a tree, and leave." : )
FTFY
The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.
Yes, just like Highlander. There can be only one! I heard these horrible rumours that there was a Highlander 2, and even a third Highlander movie. I can only assume it is the rantings of the diseased imagination of someone locked away in a padded room, next to the guy who thinks he's Napoleon.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
A fictional one, you dumb shit.
Says the daft twat who doesn't remember Donnie Darko.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
The mass media likes to equate hoverboards with magnetic levitation. That might be the case if the boards only worked over special magnetic rails, or at least conductive surfaces. If you want a freely moving vehicle, like a hovercraft without all the noise and the rubber flaps, think plasma levitation.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Actually the Japanese have kinda self-drying clothes. They infuse the material with some kind of lactose derivative IIRC. It kills the bacteria that create B.O. and wicks away sweat, but also dries really fast so you don't get patches. It's pretty cool when you come in from the rain and are completely dry in a few minutes.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
No, "It's not a failed prediction.", because it was never intended to be a "prediction".
Whoa, AC! A little hostile there. Maybe you should be the one in therapy. Then Mom and Dad can pay someone $200 an hour to listen to your thoughts so we don’t have to.
The War of 1812... the good 'ol days when the federal government actually tried to save New Orleans.
Many of things in the movie were intended as humor.
Yes, now zoom out a little bit more, and you get:
Everything in the movie is intended as entertainment.
Pfft... Long before it was popular, I didn't have a TV. I didn't turn into a 'hipster.' Hipsters turned into me! Except, they probably like shitty music. I really haven't watched TV in a long time and don't even own one that connects to the OTA broadcasts - I simply don't watch television. I never thought it made me cool, though. I always figured it made me out of touch and unable to keep up on a lot of current events and popular topics.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You guys didn't post one article about the new Star Wars trailer yesterday, and you are barely late to the game on this BTTF story (It's been weeks in the making).
What the fuck has happened here? Just close up the shop and turn out the lights, guys. You guys clearly don't care, the readers have left.
RIP Slashdot.
Yup, Slashdot is dead. Netcraft confirms it. Also, Star Wars? I hope it has Natalie Portman - naked and covered in hot grits!
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
This is Slashdot. Their secret motto is "yesterday's news today."
The BTTF story is right on schedule, and the Star Wars article should be coming along in a few days. If you timely previews of stories you'll see here, read The Register.
"What do we want?"
"Time travel!"
"When do we want it?"
"Yesterday!"
Being a cord cutter isn't cool anymore. Cool and hipstery would be cutting your internet cord, and/or getting rid of your smartphone
Trek had it best in 1967
Speaking of hipsters, if anyone had told me in 1985 that anyone would still be listening to vinyl in 2015, I would have laughed in their face!
Then I would have invented the iPod and made a billion dollars.
I think I'll just stay the way I am until it's cool again. I've seen my clothing choices go in and out of fashion a couple of times. It was kind of strange being labeled a hipster, though. Next, I'll be a foodie because I grow, hunt, and fish for much of my food when I'm home.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I KNEW my RAZR would be cool again!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
You didn't hear about the Superman vs Batman movie? With Ben "Horse tooth" Affleck as Batman? Yeah, they didn't jump that shark high enough with George Clooney.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Great TV series tho. Amazing how they had at least 60% great episodes and very few stinkers. Yet they could only find good ideas for one Highlander movie.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
> Actually the Japanese have kinda self-drying clothes
But can they hydrate a pizza?
Per BttF canon, time travel was invented on November 5th, 1955. That was the day that Doc Brown fell, hit his head, and saw a vision of the flux capacitor. Which is what makes time travel possible.
Check out the map i made with memes and videos.. from near the studios! http://www.gosur.com/back-to-t...
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They did update the series, so I guess they became popular again. I had that one and it is still kicking, since I upgraded, my son is using it.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Where is your story submission for any of those items?
This site is mostly made up of user generated content. If no one submits the story, there is no story for all of us to read.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
It doesn't change when 4:29 pm is in Los Angeles though.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
do you have confirmation from Netcraft?
It worked! :D
You seem like a person who likes getting non-consentually fucked in the ass a la George Lucas' treatment of every ingle one of his properties.
I don't have any further commentary on the subject. It just seems like you love getting raped in the asshole on a pinball machine.
They didn't predict an end to Parkinson's either, and they got that right!
Now where can I get my Michael J. Fox "Bobblehead"?