With only 365 days until we arrive at the 1989 hit film Back to the Future’s future time of October 21st 2015,  Lachlan Hastings of MX News has already begun the search to find out what we might have invented in the last few decades and whether Marty McFly will be flying hoverboards, using waste to fuel cars, will be able to see the real and virtual worlds simultaneously though a pair of goggles and be able to make a video call on his phone, by the end of 2015.

Well guess what, many of these outlandish 1989 predictions are already around or just over the horizon including the Hoverboard – when I gave the interview there was no commercially available hoverboard for a myriad of long held technological and practical reasons, but by the time the article came out 24 hour later there was a Kickstarter campaign looking for $250,000 to bring it to market (and it has since been oversubscribed with 49 days left to go) which just goes to show that 24 hours is a long time in innovation land.