On Wednesday 21^st October, time travel will be proven as Back to the Future 2’s Marty McFly hurtles into 2015 all the way from 1989.

What will he find, what will have changed and what will he think of the changes he sees?

Despite the fact we don’t quite yet have hoverboards and DeLorean flying cars, fuelled with rubbish turned into nuclear fission there are lots of things that are predicted in the 1985 film that have come about.

Here’s the stuff that’s come true:

• Flat screen TV’s
• Video conferencing
• Fingerprint biometrics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voice activated and responsive technology
• Hydroponics
• Brain controlled / wireless video games
• Handheld tablets
• Wearable technology
• Holographic displays
• Visual Displays
• Drones
• Bionic Implants

and here’s some that’s almost come true:

• Hover boards – although there are some versions of boards that might be called hover boards
• Self-lacing shoes – although Nike took out a patent on this tech and is suspected to release a version for next week’s anniversary
• Turning garbage into fuel – we can do and have done it for 30 years, but not with cold fusion
• Pepsi Perfect -although Pepsi is said to be releasing a limited edition for next week
• Automated fuelling is being trialled now by Tesla and others
• Stationery exercise bike at cafes – but we are very sports and health conscience
• Flying cars – we have them but just can’t use them
• Fax machines @ all phone booths – this if of course past tech, but it did infer an internet of sorts would be in existence
• Rejuvenation masks

No surprise, I love this movie. It’s a seminal Hollywood moment that changed my career and life and nostalgically I’ve travelled the last  30 years alongside Marty McFly and the DeLorean into the future.

It’s also one of the movie’s that sparked our curiosity about what’s next and is the source of the two questions I get asked most often – where’s my hoverboard and where’s my flying car?

Although we haven’t exactly seen some of the technologies and lifestyles depicted in the film, we do have strong evidence that some of what was shown then, is around today.

It also shows how wildly our life changes in such a short period of time.

In 1985 it would have been impossible to believe that the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would collapse. South Africa apartheid would end. A terrorist attack would fell the World Trade Centre. That 4 billion and growing smart phones would inhabit the world. That snail mail would have given way to digital mail. That the word Google would be used so readily in everyday conversation. That sharing our most intimate thoughts and actions online in social media would be so ordinary. That cures and treatments for many diseases including AIDS would have been found and that China would be on target to become an economic superpower.

There’s a huge interest in this topic and I’ve had lots of media requests, so have a listen to some of the interviews I’ve already done to see where we’re up to with the “nearly” list and happy Marty McFly day for Wednesday

Phil Dobbie – Balls Radio – 19th October – 11 minutes,  24 seconds

David Dowsett – ABC Wide Bay – 19th October- 11 minutes,  24 seconds

Phil Staley –  ABC Far North – 19th October – 16 minutes,  24 seconds

Anthony Tilli – Austereo WA – 21 October – 16 minutes,  24 seconds

Scottie and Joe – Ultra 106.5 FM – 20 October – 7 minutes,  9 seconds

Michael Clarke – ABC Townsville – 20 October – 9 minutes,  57 seconds

Clare Blake – 4BC – 20 October – 18 minutes,  5 seconds

Jane Marwick – ABC Perth Afternoon’s – 21 October 2015 – 19 minutes,  33 seconds

Phil Whelan – Hong Kong Radio 3 – 22 October 2015 – 15 minutes,  55 seconds

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