Friday, October 23, 2015

Looking back from "Back To The Future"

Looking back at October 21 1989, I was still a two year old with no sense on what the world is like.
During that time, Back to the Future 2 sounds us some future technology going into the year 2015 on the same day itself. The question is, how close are we to what was promised about 26 years back?

Well, they did show that cars no longer need roads to travel, but it seems impossible then. Now, we might not be as close - but Terrafugia is the closest we can ever get to flying cars.


Next is the hoverboard, we are many electric scooters and the likes calling them that but there is one small problem - they definitely do not hover.

A real hoverboard is this:

And not this:

Back To The Future wasn't completely off though, just go to any form of public transport now and I dare to safely say that 90% of the people are either looking at their phones or tablets. The tablet has sure come a long way!

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