Just Five Years until Flying Cars.

[terryr]

According to Back to The Future anyway.

AMC channel is playing the trilogy every day. The second part, taking place 30 years in their future, 2015, has hover technology so common even kids toys have it, Portable Fusion reactors, Holograms, Suspended Animation, knockout flashlights, slang like Bo-Jo, Lo-Bo, and Tranq, revitalization clinics that can add 30 years to your life, and kids wear their pants inside out. Houses have no door knobs and fingerprint ID, several fax machines, food is miniaturized and expanded, and big screen TVs.

Well, they got one right, unless science take a big leap pretty soon.

 

[Wes R]

Watching marty's son they also got the fact that kids have tiny attention spans right when he has all those tv channels going at once. lol

 

[SSgt Burton]

Four years in a couple of days.


Kevin

 

[wannab]

Old news.

YouTube - Flying Car


Doug

 

[skippster86]

Ive had this discussion with a few people. Flying cars are impossible. Imagine DUIs/tired drivers/engine-trans problems/weather patterns/police chases. My bet for future transportation would be track-based with computer controlled "trains"

3d is pretty much hologram tech in the making.

My buddy has a fingerprint door lock. Still has a knob but its the same idea.

skinny jeans might as well be inside out.

 

[dbuck]

Flying cars, not so much.

No lawyers, can't wait.

 

[darthgordon]

Well, the TV thing was close... and I can video conference at home and work... fax machines are almost obsolete. We could make thumb print locks for doors... but technology has a tendency to fail and I'd hate to be locked out in the cold. Plus, only the people authorized could use it... what if your friends wanted to come in?

Flying cars would be a logistical nightmare. It's hard enough to control the planes we have in the air right now... plus, after 9-11, I don't think anyone would go for it. It's always been a fun thought, but not practical.

 

[wannab]

I'm still holding out for a practical jetpack.

Doug

 

[terryr]

One thing they did get was the flat paint on Griffs car. That's kind of popular now. They call it velvet or satin.

Why do film makers always go only 20 or 30 years in the future? Shape Of Things To Come, 1984, Space 1999, 2010, Bladerunner 2017[?]. Is that the limit of their imagination? Or does it seem so very far away?