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Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-make-like-a-tree-and-get-out-of-here dept.

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.

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  1. Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by retroworks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amazingly, Chris Lloyd is right. Fax machines today are still for sale on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Brother-...

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  2. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Rakarra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  3. Actually the movie was right by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Re:Libertarian future by Fire_Wraith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cyberpunk? Seems to me like it's already here, in many ways. Oh, sure, we haven't quite started on the whole implants bit, but wearables are already becoming a thing, and body modification is already an alt culture thing, so we're not far off there.

    Corporations taking precedence over governments? Yeah, well on our way.

    World wide connected network with people increasingly spending all their time plugged in? Check.

    Hackers for hire breaking into to companies to steal information? Check.