Back to the Future
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Watched Back to the Future again the other day. Love it. Perfect slice of the 80's.
It got me thinking though; in Back to the Future they go back 30 years from 1985 to 1955 and everything is hugely diffrent.
We are now almost 30 years on from 1985. Do you think that things have changed all that much?
Obviously we have mobile phones and the tinterweb now, but what else is different?
It got me thinking though; in Back to the Future they go back 30 years from 1985 to 1955 and everything is hugely diffrent.
We are now almost 30 years on from 1985. Do you think that things have changed all that much?
Obviously we have mobile phones and the tinterweb now, but what else is different?
Well we don't have flying cars or hoverboards but computing power has moved on massively. I would imagine that if you put an iPad or an XBox 360 (connected to a huge TV of course) in front of someone from the 80's they would be in awe.
However I don't think that things have moved on so much in that someone from the 80's couldn't adjust to 2011 living easily.
However I don't think that things have moved on so much in that someone from the 80's couldn't adjust to 2011 living easily.
chunkymonkey71 said:
Watched Back to the Future again the other day. Love it. Perfect slice of the 80's.
It got me thinking though; in Back to the Future they go back 30 years from 1985 to 1955 and everything is hugely diffrent.
We are now almost 30 years on from 1985. Do you think that things have changed all that much?
Obviously we have mobile phones and the tinterweb now, but what else is different?
SOME things came true!It got me thinking though; in Back to the Future they go back 30 years from 1985 to 1955 and everything is hugely diffrent.
We are now almost 30 years on from 1985. Do you think that things have changed all that much?
Obviously we have mobile phones and the tinterweb now, but what else is different?
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Anthony Micallef said:
chunkymonkey71 said:
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onyx39 said:
chunkymonkey71 said:
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BTTF is one of my all-time favourites. Enjoyed the sequels, but the first movie is just so right. When it came out I was the same age as M J Fox was supposed to be in character; I particularly wanted to chuck one up Lea Thompson.
Looking back as an 80s teenager who was quite into gadgets and technology at the time, I know my 1985 self would be absolutely astounded at the cable-free wireless devices we take for granted. We carry what is effectively the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in our pockets, instant online access to all knowledge, with the ability to contact most people on Earth while sitting in the pub. A real time satellite-driven colour moving-map display in your pocket that you can buy in Tesco? Augmented reality with HUD-like digital overlays as you walk around a city, albeit while having to look at your phone?
Spotify? Streaming real time access to most of the world's music? It's a long way from Marty's cassette Walkman. I still played on a ZX Spectrum in 1985. As previously mentioned, a 360 or PS3 would be mind-blowing in comparison. Photo-realistic games played by moving your body in 3D space while competing against someone you've never met in Idaho? You can even tell them to stop screaming in your ear.
CGI in movies. The effects in BTTF are actually OK, but things have moved a long way. I suppose in other ways some areas aren't significantly different. Aerospace technology would still be recognisably similar, and a car is still a car that you have to fill up from a pump and then steer with a big wheel.
Lea Thompson is still recognisably hot as well.
Looking back as an 80s teenager who was quite into gadgets and technology at the time, I know my 1985 self would be absolutely astounded at the cable-free wireless devices we take for granted. We carry what is effectively the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in our pockets, instant online access to all knowledge, with the ability to contact most people on Earth while sitting in the pub. A real time satellite-driven colour moving-map display in your pocket that you can buy in Tesco? Augmented reality with HUD-like digital overlays as you walk around a city, albeit while having to look at your phone?
Spotify? Streaming real time access to most of the world's music? It's a long way from Marty's cassette Walkman. I still played on a ZX Spectrum in 1985. As previously mentioned, a 360 or PS3 would be mind-blowing in comparison. Photo-realistic games played by moving your body in 3D space while competing against someone you've never met in Idaho? You can even tell them to stop screaming in your ear.
CGI in movies. The effects in BTTF are actually OK, but things have moved a long way. I suppose in other ways some areas aren't significantly different. Aerospace technology would still be recognisably similar, and a car is still a car that you have to fill up from a pump and then steer with a big wheel.
Lea Thompson is still recognisably hot as well.
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