Video chats, biometrics, drones: come true predictions from the movie 'Back to the Future 2'
Author of the channel “Black Maria Cinema” on Yandex.Zen suggests recalling the 1989 film “Back to the Future 2”, in which the main character Marty McFly finds himself in 2015.
In the story, being in 2015, Marty wears Nike sneakers, which self-lace up. This technology has not become commonplace, but sneakers that adapt their shape to a person's foot do exist and are called the Nike Adapt.
Walking past a movie theater, Marty sees a huge hologram of a shark advertising the release of the next sequel to the movie Jaws. This episode predicted two really existing trends at once. Holograms have become a part of the music and film industry - holograms of non-existent and deceased celebrities appear on stage, and this will not surprise anyone. And the fact that the film industry has truly turned into an endless stream of sequels and reboots is not even worth mentioning.
Video games, in which you need to use your own hands to play, have also become a part of reality for a long time and are not perceived as something fantastic. The Xbox Kinect Touchless Touch Game Controller actually existed in 2015.
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The biggest disappointment of reality is that we still don't have hoverboards that fly. In 2015, The Hendo Hoverboard went to great lengths to make this fabulous device a reality. And she really created a device on which you can rise low above the ground. But we want to fly freely and confidently, like Marty McFly.
But our smartphones and tablets have come a long way compared to the devices that allowed people in the movie “Back to the Future 2” to receive the information they requested.
A wall-to-wall TV that lets you watch multiple channels at once? Easy. Almost every home has such a gadget.
The voice assistant in Back to the Future 2 was involved in cooking and controlling home electronics. In the real world of 2015, Siri technology could not yet control all the electrical appliances in the house, but it could find the technology you need. And the “smart home” is slowly and surely becoming commonplace.
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Virtual reality has engulfed young people both in film and in life. Oculus Rift and Google Glass allow you to completely immerse yourself in the virtual world and ignore your household.
In the film, a flying drone was walking a dog. In reality, drones have not replaced the owners' walks with their pets, but in 2015 drones performed many different functions and continue to win their place in the life of mankind.
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The movie Back to the Future 2 showed us a world in which biometric data has completely replaced signatures. In real 2015, biometrics had already become an integral part of classified objects; it was slowly and surely moving into the lives of ordinary people.
Video chat with a colleague? What could be easier, given the availability of high-speed Internet and numerous video conferencing technologies! This is not fiction - this is reality.
Original column published on the blog. “Black Maria Cinema” on Yandex.Zen
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