'Back to the Future': What the movie got right, and wrong, about 2015. Great Scott! The future is here. The second installment of the Back To The Future trilogy finds Marty McFly, portrayed by Michael J. Fox, time-traveling to Oct. 21, 2015. Among his discoveries are hand-held computers, video chatting, Major League Baseball in Miami, and a preponderance of cameras. But what is life really like 30 years after the movie? Marty McFly and Doc Brown are supposed to arrive from 1985 in two months. For all the guesses the movie got wrong, did it get anything right? 30 years ago, Marty McFly got a glimpse of what a day in 2015 was supposed to look like. For what it's worth, Nike is bringing the future to us with some self-tying shoes: Just like Marty McFly saw in 1989's Back to the Future Part II, Nike will produce self-tying power laces in 2015. USA TODAY was in the future.
The 1989 film Back to the Future II featured a fictional copy of USA TODAY from 2015. So, what happened to Back to the Future star Michael J. And bully Biff Tannen, played by Thomas F. 1 of 22. 4 Ways We're Failing to Live Up to 'Back to the Future 2' As you may remember, the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II saw Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the distant year of 2015, a year filthy with cyborgs and self-lacing sneakers. And a few days ago, Nike announced that they will market said shoes next year, which is smashing news for those of you who have yet to figure out Velcro. But how far along are the other technological marvels as depicted in Back to the Future Part II's 2015? Well, a scan of the latest headlines is not heartening. If the following innovations don't come to pass in the next 300 days, we'll have to seriously rethink our company policy that all movies are nonfiction. #4. Hoverboards are the best part of the Back to the Future films, for the sole reason that they're so much fun, they'll erase the trauma of being sexually propositioned by one's own mother days earlier.
Universal StudiosBetween incest, bestiality, and Tom Cruise, the '80s were a weird time for Lea Thompson. OnewheelThey basically did this to a Segway. How Accurate is the Future in ‘Back to the Future: Part II’? Contrary to what a dozen or so faulty Facebook memes say, we have not reached the day that Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel to in Back to the Future: Part II. That won’t happen until next year, on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, to be exact. However, as we look ahead to that day in all of its post-Avengers 2 and pre-Star Wars 7 glory, we can assess what still needs to happen for the 2015 of 1989 to become a reality.
Obviously we don’t have hoverboards or Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactors in every kitchen, but revisiting the classic Back to the Future series got me thinking: Is any of the stuff we saw happening yet? The Answer: Some is, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do. Sure, Back to the Future: Part II is a sci-fi comedy lark, but like any film predicting the world of the future – even one 30 to 40 years away (we’ll talk about Blade Runner in five years, I’m sure) – there are some bold predictions.
Okay, that one was nit-picking. What about culture?
Back to the Future 2: Flying car a reality. By Peter Chubb Posted 6 Jul 2010, 12:42 When we reported the news of the Terrafugia Transition last week we did not realize the significance of it, as Back to the Future 2 was the movie that gave us the flying Deloren. Marty McFly had to go to the future to save his kid, the year was 2015 and was when it was natural to see flying cars – so the news of the Terrafugia Transition flying car was certainly great timing, although it is five years early.
So we know that the technology is there – well not as good as the movie suggested though. Drivers will be able to purchase one of these flying cars in 2011, but do not expect to be able to go to your local dealer and then fly one home – not unless you want to get shot down by the air force for going too close to a government building. According to USA-Daily writer Emma Christensen, the Terrafugia Transition will cost $194,000.
On Flying Cars and DeLoreans: Back to the Future - Today and Tomorrow. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the 1985 summer blockbuster "Back to the Future," (as well as a brief flareup over the specific date in the future that Doc Brown sets his time machine), we thought it'd be appropriate to take a look at two of the films most memorable automotive oddities: The DeLorean and the Flying Car. While we may technically be living in the "Future" that Hollywood imagined a quarter century ago, some of the nifty toys that we assumed we'd all be playing with still haven't materialized yet, while others we had back then have gone the way of the DoDo bird.
It all goes to show you that the art of predicting the future of the automobile is not an exact science. Developed by Amercian engineer and industrialist John Z. Delorean, the original DeLorean DMC-12 was only available between 1981-82 and was the only vehicle produced by the short lived DeLorean Motor Company. 11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Right. So, since it's 2009 and we're only six-and-a-half years away from the future they traveled to (October 2015)... I think we're close enough to do an audit. How'd they do? How accurate were their predictions? In my too-much-time-on-my-hands research of the subject, I ended up finding 11 good predictions from "Back to the Future Part II"... and 11 bad predictions.
Watching multiple TV channels simultaneously. Here's Marty video conferencing with his co-worker Needles. 11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Wrong. Today, we go after the swings and misses in "Back to the Future Part II"... the things that movie predicted for 2015 and got completely wrong. Now, granted, 2015 is six-and-a-half years away, so, in a way, I'm also engaging in future speculation by writing this list today.
But I feel like it's OK... at this point, in 2009, I think it's pretty clear what, basically, we will and won't have in 2015. So here we go... Hoverboards. Of everything from "BBTF Part II" that we're not gonna have in 2015, this is definitely the biggest disappointment. We don't have hoverboards now, and we're not going to have them in a few years.