#Back to the future police car movie#

HeвЂ™s not so quick to discount HendoвЂ™s innovation, though, saying, вЂњItвЂ™s an interesting breakthrough in thinking that dramatically brings a BTTF IIвЂ“type device much closer.вЂќ вЂњTen years, 20 years, who knows?вЂќ he says. How far away is that? Frey is firmly noncommittal. In BTTF II, the hoverboard Marty borrows from a young girl works on any surface except water. WeвЂ™re talking about a real hoverboard here, not HendoвЂ™s hoverboard, which requires a specialized surface to hover. ThatвЂ™s a few more precious seconds to ride your вЂ¦

If your front door and phone communicate with each other, the door can open while youвЂ™re walking toward it, rather than requiring you to press your thumb to a pad. What seems more likely is less of a reliance on actual thumbprints and more of one on our smartphones, which DuBravac says вЂњwill become an extension of your thumbprint.вЂќ That sounds better anyway. The real question when it comes to thumbprints isnвЂ™t about the technology itself, but if itвЂ™s вЂњthe most efficient, reliant way of accelerating and expediting transactions,вЂќ says Shawn DuBravac, head of research at the Consumer Electronic Alliance. None of that seems very far-fetched today. They pop up again as a way to make mobile payments. Once at the McFly residence, we see another thumb pad, in the place of a doorknob. We first see a futuristic thumb-pad in action when Hill Valley Police use one to identify Jennifer, whom they find sleeping in an alley. In BTTF IIвЂ™s version of 2015, thumbprints are the preferred mode of identification. вЂњWeвЂ™re able to embed them in trees and plants, and thereвЂ™s some interesting speculation that a lot of night lighting is going to go away and weвЂ™ll have our plants and trees glowing in the evening.вЂќ In fact, all public-safety lighting may one day be replaced by jellyfish genes, Frey says. ItвЂ™s easy to imagine why neon curbs would be common in 2015 Hill Valley, given the need to land a car from above, but donвЂ™t expect to see them in real life. вЂњDirectional layers of airspace,вЂќ he says, where specific altitudes have a designated direction in which vehicles fly. вЂњOnce we get into three-dimensional space, flying vehicles are exponentially more complicated, and the average person is not prepared to do that.вЂќ As for the highway in the sky, Frey envisions a much more sophisticated solution to controlling air traffic. вЂњWe will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.вЂќ The BTTF II model, in which a person gets behind the wheel of his own flying car, is too dangerous, Frey says. вЂњWe will never get to the flying car era,вЂќ Frey told Vulture. According to Thomas Frey, executive director of futurist think tank the DaVinci Institute, we shouldnвЂ™t expect to see either of those things, ever. When Doc, Marty, and Jennifer first arrive in 2015, the airborne DeLorean is cruising through the sky on a literal highway.

#Back to the future police car movie#

Fusion, which powered the DeLorean with banana peels and beer cans, but itвЂ™s yet another step toward making our future like Marty McFlyвЂ™s.Д«ut what about the rest of the wild technology found in 2015 Hill Valley? We spoke to a handful of scientists, professors, tech whizzes, and other experts about the possibilities of this movie future.

LockheedвЂ™s proposed reactor wonвЂ™t be as small as Mr. Lockheed Martin says itвЂ™s close to building a small nuclear-fusion reactor. Despite some obvious limitations (it only hovers over one particular surface), the gadget brings us a little closer to the 2015 imagined by the 25-year-old sequel. This fall not only marked the one-year countdown to October 21, 2015, the date on which Back to the Future IIвЂ™s Marty and Doc arrive in the future, but it saw the announcement of the Hendo Hoverboard. We are rerunning it because itвЂ™s finally October 21, 2015.

This post originally ran in December 2014.