sci-fi geeks surely know this but I
don’t know how widespread it is in the
rest of the population that the second
installment of the Back to the Future
trilogy there’s a scene that takes place
in the future on October 21st way in the
Year 2015 well that’s like now that’s
now and so you get to see the creativity
of the futurists of 1989 imagining the
future that Marty McFly walks into of
course they had flying cars which I
think will never have but perhaps more
intriguing than even the flying car is
the flying skateboard that idea
triggered engineers to try to create
something like a hoverboard I think
science fiction at its best will have
such a tantalizing idea that’s just out
of reach of your technology that you
will stimulate research of people who
want to create that future that had just
been imagined what futurists tend to get
wrong is they see what is going on
around them and in their extrapolation
they just sort of trump up what that is
imagining they’re just more of it in the
future
1980s fax machines were it everybody had
a fax machine want to send a document to
me here’s a fax it
what would faxes be in the future well
in your home you wouldn’t have just one
fax machine you’d have three and so
Marty gets fired from his job and he’s
notified by his boss with faxes that
come out of all the fax machines of his
homes three fax machines is not three
times better than one fax machine and
today nobody has a fax machine that was
before most people had email and before
the concept of an attachment was
perfected predictions tend to focus on
extrapolating from what is rather than
imagining what could come in out of left
field perhaps the most impossible
prediction they made was Cubs sweep the
World Series the Cubs have not won the
World Series since 1908
so we’ll see right now as of this
recording the Cubs have entered the
playoffs we’ll see if the prophecy of
Back to the Future 2 is fulfilled
you
don’t know how widespread it is in the
rest of the population that the second
installment of the Back to the Future
trilogy there’s a scene that takes place
in the future on October 21st way in the
Year 2015 well that’s like now that’s
now and so you get to see the creativity
of the futurists of 1989 imagining the
future that Marty McFly walks into of
course they had flying cars which I
think will never have but perhaps more
intriguing than even the flying car is
the flying skateboard that idea
triggered engineers to try to create
something like a hoverboard I think
science fiction at its best will have
such a tantalizing idea that’s just out
of reach of your technology that you
will stimulate research of people who
want to create that future that had just
been imagined what futurists tend to get
wrong is they see what is going on
around them and in their extrapolation
they just sort of trump up what that is
imagining they’re just more of it in the
future
1980s fax machines were it everybody had
a fax machine want to send a document to
me here’s a fax it
what would faxes be in the future well
in your home you wouldn’t have just one
fax machine you’d have three and so
Marty gets fired from his job and he’s
notified by his boss with faxes that
come out of all the fax machines of his
homes three fax machines is not three
times better than one fax machine and
today nobody has a fax machine that was
before most people had email and before
the concept of an attachment was
perfected predictions tend to focus on
extrapolating from what is rather than
imagining what could come in out of left
field perhaps the most impossible
prediction they made was Cubs sweep the
World Series the Cubs have not won the
World Series since 1908
so we’ll see right now as of this
recording the Cubs have entered the
playoffs we’ll see if the prophecy of
Back to the Future 2 is fulfilled
you
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