No biggie. They showed that in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also on the Jetsons.
Posted on 01/03/2015 6:49:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Great Scott - is it that time already?
2015 has finally come around, and for movie buffs everywhere, there is but one pressing question - how many predictions did Back To The Future II get right about this year?
In the 1989 sci-fi comedy classic, Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) and sidekick 'Doc' Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel through time to the futuristic year of 2015.
And remarkably, there were incidences where the film's futuristic predictions were eerily accurate.
In the movie, Marty McFly of 2015 speaks to his colleagues on a video call - a fairly spot-on representation of how we chat using Skype or FaceTime.
The characters also answered calls with glasses - similar to how computerized eye-wear Google glass works. The film also sees a dehydrated pizza growing into a meal-sized dish after 12 seconds on the 'hydrator plate' - this could be seen as an early form of the microwave meal.
3D movies (such as the film's prediction of a Jaws 19) have now become a reality along with holograms.
While the movie was spot on with many of its predictions, not quite everything from Back To The Future II has come to pass.
Flying cars have not hit the mainstream in the new millennium.
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truth is in none of these movies that predict the future the one common thing that we see nowadays which is never in them is cell phones and all the other wireless devices we use....there are video calls but on fixed landlines devices...I was just watching Blade Runner last night which is 2019 and again ever no cell phones and wireless devices
My Dad, ever the gadget lover, bought a microwave oven in 1972. It didn’t work nearly as well as those of today. For instance, it barely cooked a hot dog properly.
No biggie. They showed that in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also on the Jetsons.
LOL! Spent a lot of time in that neighborhood. My ex used to work in that Penney’s- I used to pick her up and drop her off there every day. I was mulling taking a drive over to Sun Valley the evening the plane hit it, but decided against it for no particular reason. Then the news came in...
I’ve heard Sun Valley ain’t what it used to be. Haven’t been there in years.
Velcro straps instead of laces comes close.
I’m thinking Star Trek from the 60’s .... flip phone, wall mounted TV ....
In the movie,the Chicago Cubs completed a five game sweep over a team from Miami to win the World Series.
Chicago's win was shown in the INSIDE SPORTS box in the top left-hand corner of the front page of the October 22, 2015 issue of USA Today.
Microwaves were completely unavailable in 1989? Is the author ten years old? And the movie is Back to the Future II, the sequel.
Time-travelers have a vested interest in releasing just “enough” valid information about the future to keep the society moving forward, but not too much to cause disruption in the timeline or resulting in nasty paradoxes...
(Paradice ;?)
Pretty sure they were available before then. Dad built the new house when I was in Prep School, around ‘63. He got the first Microwave in town. A built-in. Weighed about 300 pounds.
Well that's been their plan, anyway... but you know the saying about how to make God laugh... LOL!
The Raytheon Corporation produced the first commercial microwave oven in 1954; it was called the 1161 Radarange. It was large, expensive, and had a power of 1600 watts. The first domestic microwave oven was produced in 1967 by Amana (a division of Raytheon).
Awesome. Love stuff like that.
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