I'm surprised there hasn't been more hype about this:

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… but the date Doc jumps to in Back to the Future is Oct. 21 (i.e., this coming Wednesday)!

I thought media, social and otherwise, would be all over it by now.

Or maybe I’ve fortunately missed it?
 
I’ve seen numerous posts about it.

Universal put out a joke trailer for Jaws 19, for which a marquee is seen in BTTF 2.

Pepsi is releasing a limited edition “Pepsi Perfect” on the 21st.

And with the Cubs having success in the playoffs, there have been mentions of the “prediction” by BTTF 2 that they will win the World Series.
 
One of the local movie theaters is showing the BTTF trilogy next Wednesday.
 
I wonder why there was much more publicity about BTTF 2 during the summer than now?
 
I’ve seen only the first one - are the others as good? I know that sometimes (pretty often!) sequels aren’t too good.
 
Thanks! I’ll have to see if the library has 2 & 3. We watched #1 not that long ago.

Just checked & they do! I put a hold on #2. 🙂
 
For me, 3,2,1.

I love the whole series though. Shame there couldn’t be a 4! 🙂

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ProdglArchitect said:
You liked two more than one, really? Mind if I asked why?
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Well, the flying car and other “future” (for then) gadgets and effects were just so cool.

I think it’s amazing the way it (nearly) matched up with modern technology.

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GEddie said:
Well, the flying car and other “future” (for then) gadgets and effects were just so cool.

I think it’s amazing the way it (nearly) matched up with modern technology.

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I must have missed the flying cars and hover boards when I was in Texas last year. 😉

One things that is interesting those is that technology isn’t generally predicted by movies or tv shows, but rather influence future generations of engineers. If you watch the old Star Trek series you will see a number of inventions that seem to be 20 years in advance, but in reality it’s the young kids that see the “future” and want to live in that world so become engineers to make their childhood dreams a reality.
 
Usige said:
I must have missed the flying cars and hover boards when I was in Texas last year. 😉
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Well, they missed that, and I think they knew they were gonna miss it. The last thing the FAA wanted even then was a sky full of average drivers:):):).

But in some ways the tech has even gone past. We don’t have faxes in every room because fax is now passé. We have brain-powered video games, but they never caught on because current games can use the whole body. Etc.

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Usige said:
One things that is interesting those is that technology isn’t generally predicted by movies or tv shows, but rather influence future generations of engineers. If you watch the old Star Trek series you will see a number of inventions that seem to be 20 years in advance, but in reality it’s the young kids that see the “future” and want to live in that world so become engineers to make their childhood dreams a reality.
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You may be right. I’m an early Star Trek fan and I still get a kick out of my flip phone. 🙂

But I just gave it to my husband (not a ST fan) and got myself a smart phone. THAT definitely goes beyond the original Star Trek.
 
Bonnie said:
You may be right. I’m an early Star Trek fan and I still get a kick out of my flip phone. 🙂

But I just gave it to my husband (not a ST fan) and got myself a smart phone. THAT definitely goes beyond the original Star Trek.
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Yes, that’s true. But fast forward 30 years and if you look at the PADDs they used in Next Generation they are suspiciously like forerunners of the tablets of today. It was about 15 - 20 years between TNG and the first tablets and smart phones. If you watch Red Planet from about 15 years ago, they have flexible screens for their portable computers. LG and others have been showing flexible OLED displays for the past year or two. Look at today’s technologies and then look back 15 - 20 years and I think you will see many of the ideas that inspired the look, feel and functionality of those devices in consumer electronics. Not always, but enough to see the influence.

That is one of the great things about true science fiction; it inspires people to ask how they can do X.
 
carmelitenovice said:
… but the date Doc jumps to in Back to the Future is Oct. 21 (i.e., this coming Wednesday)!

I thought media, social and otherwise, would be all over it by now.

Or maybe I’ve fortunately missed it?
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And the Cubs won the World Series.
 
Usige said:
I must have missed the flying cars and hover boards when I was in Texas last year. 😉

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If you look up Nikola Tesla and his experiments into electromagnetism, he had blueprints for a ‘hovering car’, just like the type you see in many sci fi movies, of course, these plans along with others are still kept highly classified by the US Govt.

Teslas hover car was shot down by the powers that be, when they told him there was no way to meter usage of the earths electro magnetics, so people would not have to pay for any fuel to use these things, his hover car was also mostly solid state, not many moving parts, that was likely to give them a very long lifespan with not many repairs needed…if this was released to the public, too many industries would go out business…its a shame, but greed comes before progress in this case at least.
 
mikekle said:
If you look up Nikola Tesla and his experiments into electromagnetism, he had blueprints for a ‘hovering car’, just like the type you see in many sci fi movies, of course, these plans along with others are still kept highly classified by the US Govt.

Teslas hover car was shot down by the powers that be, when they told him there was no way to meter usage of the earths electro magnetics, so people would not have to pay for any fuel to use these things, his hover car was also mostly solid state, not many moving parts, that was likely to give them a very long lifespan with not many repairs needed…if this was released to the public, too many industries would go out business…its a shame, but greed comes before progress in this case at least.
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While I am a big fan of Tesla not everything he envisioned would work. The earth’s magnetic field on the surface ranges from roughly .25 to .6 gauss and that is simply not strong enough to hover a car without a stronger opposing magnetic field. We already have maglev trains, but they require several thousand gauss to hover the cars on a magnetic cushion. The transformers used to generate the propulsive fields is also in the guideways to keep the weight of the cars down.

I would agree that many opposed Tesla’s ideas for competitive reasons, but be careful about buying into hype that we would all be the Jetsons if not for conspiracies to suppress Tesla’s ideas. Tesla was an engineering genius but he still had to work with the laws of physics.
 
Mongo said:
And the Cubs won the World Series.
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That’s what I’ve been waiting for the past 30 years. 😛 I think it’s awesome that they are actually still in it this year. That would be something if they could break the 107 year losing streak right when Back to the Future predicted they would. 🙂
 
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