00:17Grazie a tutti
00:40It's 2015 and folks we're living in the future but how does the glittering era we currently
00:45inhabit compare to our long-held benchmark for technological progress back to the future
00:50part two. The year 2015 as visited by Marty McFly got a lot of things right about today's
00:56tech but in other ways our modern contraptions are way beyond anything we could have imagined
01:00back in the 80s. Here are the tech predictions that Back to the Future got right and what it
01:05missed. Let's start with something the movie got right the rise of the smart home. Marty's
01:10future house is absolutely packed with gadgets from flat screen TVs used for video calls
01:16to fingerprint scanning door locks and voice control just about everywhere.
01:20It's dangerous to enter without lights on. Lights on? Yes. In our own 2015 meanwhile one
01:25of the year's biggest trends has been giving our own home appliances a similar high-tech
01:29makeover. Our door locks sense our presence, our thermostats can be controlled from anywhere,
01:34our lights change colour, our homes can be viewed remotely while bizarre robots roam our carpets.
01:43Hydrate level four please. Admittedly modern smart homes still can't cook a pizza in seconds but there is one more
01:49similarity. Both the McFly's and today's tech enabled household struggle to make voice control work.
01:54It's fruit. Fruit please. Thank you.
01:59Yes Siri, where's the fruit? Let me think about that. Here's what I found on the web for yes Siri,
02:06where's the fruit? There is one thing missing from Marty's smart home and it's the biggest problem with
02:11the film's vision of the future. Where's the internet? The internet has been without a doubt the greatest
02:17tech revolution of the last 25 years, offering instant digital communication between devices and
02:22putting the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But in Marty's 2015 there's no sign that various
02:28gadgets are talking to each other. Indeed there's not even a hint of email with fax machines still the
02:34primary method of communication. Fax is one thing but when it comes to a technology that's been steadily
02:40evolving over the last half a century, Back to the Future proves remarkably prescient. Modern television
02:46has come a long way since the medium started gaining traction in the middle of the last century
02:50and Back to the Future saw several changes coming. For one thing our TVs are flat panels and they're
02:56multi-functional, handling all manner of apps including video chat. And while we don't tend to watch six
03:02channels at once, the modern phenomenon of second screen viewing does divide our attention, with IMDB
03:07or reactions on Twitter never far from our field of vision. Speaking of those second screens, one thing
03:13nobody in the 80s could have anticipated was the role that mobile gadgets would play in our lives.
03:18The McFly kids of 2015 might have something resembling Google Glass but it's not as personal or powerful as
03:25as a modern smartphone. These goggles are hooked up to a shared telephone line for goodness sake.
03:30Dan is for you.
03:31And speaking of personal tech, where are all the social networks? If Marty Jr had really wanted to avoid
03:37Griff and his gang, he could have just checked his Instagram. Let's talk about entertainment,
03:43an area in which Back to the Future made some very solid predictions indeed. Take young Elijah Wood's
03:48disgust that 80s gaming involved using your hands and then consider motion-based advances such as Microsoft's
03:54Reconnect or the Oculus Rift. And while we're not watching Jaws 19 in Holomax,
03:59the modern cinema landscape is dominated by sequels and franchises.
04:08Man, the DeLorean is cool. And indeed Back to the Future did make some great predictions about
04:13innovation in the automotive industry. It just didn't quite guess where that innovation was happening.
04:18Our future lacks commercially available flying vehicles, but we've got self-driving cars looming on the
04:24horizon. And fully electric cars are rapidly gaining traction, which is pretty darn cool.
04:29Don't forget that while the DeLorean's time circuits are powered by the trash consuming Mr.
04:33Fusion, the car itself still ran on gasoline. Chalk one up for the non-fictional timeline.
04:38So all things considered, how accurate was Back to the Future?
04:43Well, bearing in mind the makers of the movie were probably more concerned with making an entertaining
04:47film and playing Nostradamus, a lot of it is pretty spot on. I mean, apart from the hoverboard,
04:53of course. Which, let's be honest, is the only thing that any of us ever really wanted.
04:59Of course, it's always possible that much of the tech that Back to the Future did predict
05:03exists precisely because it was in the film, offering humanity a glittering vision of what to
05:08aim for. In fact, it's almost as if the film itself was a message sent back from the future to
05:13our
05:13past selves, creating multiple technological timelines. This is Heavy.
05:28What do you fancy doing now? A tender rhythmic ceremonial ritual?
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