It's Back to the Future day so let's delve into what predictions the movie got right...and wrong!

In "Back to the Future Part II," Marty McFly travels in time to 2015. The film's producers worked several predictions into the movie. The "Back to the Future" sequel takes place primarily on October 21, 2015.


Correct Predictions

  • flat screen TVs ...
  • Skype and Facetime ... McFly talks to a friend, played by Flea from the Red Hot Chili
  • Peppers, with a Skype-like program on his flat screen TV
  • 3-D technology .. in the film, McFly walks past a 3-D hologram of "Jaws 19."
  • hoverboards
  • dehydrated food

Incorrect Predictions

  • flying cars ... Christopher Lloyd's Doc character says: "Roads? Where we're going,
  • we don't need roads."
  • self-lacing shoes ... Nike is working on developing these shoes
  • dominant fax machine culture

 

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