"Back to the Future II" 2015 vs. 2015 reality

We have finally reached the date that Marty McFly in the movie "Back to the Future II" time- traveled to! During the movie, Marty McFly time-travels to October 21, 2015, into the future. I think that the movie was pretty close to what has been developed in 2015. The movie offers that 2015 has hover boards, video calls, flying cars, etc.

For the hover boards, we sort of have them. The ones we have now require a metal course to fly around. So unfortunately it isn't really used in the way that the movie used them. Video calls are very much used now as well, thanks to Facetime and Skype. I think that video calls are a very big achievement and that the movie guessed right that we would have them. Of course we still don't have flying cars yet, but we have something like it. We only have a few prototypes that are more like driving planes rather than flying cars, but that's pretty close. In "Back to the Future II" they have drones walking dogs and doing different jobs. Although drones aren't too great for walking dogs, we still do have them, which is pretty cool. Last but not least, the Cubs. The movie has it that the Cubs win the World Series. Although that is very unlikely, it is still possible.                    

I really think that this is so fascinating, how they were so close to what 2015 would be like. But of course everybody always thinks the future will be “flying cars and hover boards”. I was surprised to hear that we do have many of the things that they predicted for 2015. I thought that this was so awesome in the fact that we have finally reached “the future”.

Go to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/21/what-back-to-the-future-ii-got-right-and-wrong-about-oct-21-2015/ for more info