A different future than Back to the Future

The famous duo, Marty McFly and Doc Brown, went to the future on Oct. 21, 2015, and showed us a future of flying cars and self-drying clothes in Back to the Future Part II, released on Nov. 22, 1989.

Well the day has come and gone, and we still don’t have an abundance of flying cars or self-drying clothes at every H&M, but the Hollywood writers did get some things right about our future.

Despite our lack of big innovations in technology such as hovering transporting, they had predicted many other technology advancements correctly.  For instance, self-tying Nike shoes are now for-sale, and function just as they had in the movie.  

Along with that, glasses with computers in them are starting to become popular with Google Glasses, and fingerprint scanning to access your home is instead used to access your phone.

However, we are still without hoverboards and flying cars to take us everywhere, and there are no hovering robots that walk our dogs when we are too lazy.  We have robots that do our vacuuming for us though.

Another prediction made was that all food would be dehydrated for easier meal preparation.  Rather than that we have Hot Pockets and other frozen microwaveable meals, but it’s not quite the same.

In sports predictions, the Chicago Cubs were supposed to win this season’s World Series, but most of us know that the Cubs were swept by the New York Mets in the playoffs, and the Kansas City Royals took the series trophy.

What is arguably the most hilarious prediction made is what they thought we would be wearing today.  

As far as I am aware, clear ties are not generally the norm, like Doc Brown so famously wears in most of the movie, and neither is wearing two ties side by side of each other.  

One thing we have similarly to the prediction however, is the popularity of wearing tourist-like shirts, also famously worn by Doc Brown, though the amount of flashy and cheesy robotic clothes that we have today is far less than predicted in the movie.

Despite many optimistic guesses where we would be today, the writers of Back to the Future Part II did make some pretty accurate predictions.