What would you show Doc about 2010?
We all continue to speculate whether we will have hoverboards by 2015, but if you go back to the first movie, Doc Brown was originally planning to go 25 years into the future before the Libyans showed up. He always dreamed of seeing the future looking beyond his years, seeing the progress of mankind.
Of course 1985 + 25 = 2010.
So suppose it were two years ago, and Doc asks you to show him around and explain how things have changed since 1985. What do you tell him? For example:
- Pretty much everyone has a home computer now, and we don't measure things in kilobytes anymore.
- In movies, the concept of "special effects" is obsolete. Anything you can imagine can be rendered with photo-realistic computer animation. (I'd ease him in with Titanic and LOTR before showing him Avatar.)
- Oh, by the way, we're watching these movies from a disc that looks like a CD, but with more than 10 times the capacity. Who needs to "Be Kind. Rewind." ?
What else?
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