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The future is upon us — but if you asked Marty McFly , he ’d distinguish you we ’re already behind schedule .
1. Biometric Thumbprint Scanner
2. Hoverboard
Even if the developers at Mattel had a breakthrough and got the hoverboard ready for stores , there would be another force-out to master : lawmakers who take what ’s street - legal . retrieve the Segway and how radical it was presuppose to be ? New York - found fantast Michael Rogers sound out the hoverboard would probably be in for the same fate as the go bad personal car transporter .
3. Rejuvenation Clinic
viaSomethingAwful
Doc Brown ’s visit to a rejuvenation clinic saved the pic ’s makeup department from doing old - age makeup on actor Christopher Lloyd throughout the production , but mod viewers can also see Doc ’s de - wrinkling as a reality - base nod to the produce popularity of plastic operating room — and Doc ’s replacement spleen and Costa Rican colon could be a near - future trend , too . Rogers says that in 2015 there will be some synthetic Hammond organ replacement , but it will still be in the experimental stage . According to Seattle - based futurist Glen Hiemstra , by 2030 or 2040 we will be able-bodied to clone our own organs and mature ourselves a new spleen or liver .
4. Marty’s Clothes
viaSole Collector
Marty ’s tycoon - lacing Nike shoe and automatically adjusting jacket seemed like too good an thought not to live . Nike hashintedat forthcoming superpower - lacing shoes , but do n’t expect electronically size - altering wear to be all the rage a year or two from now . Futurists foretell it ’s more probable that we see infrared body image scanner that take accurate measuring for clothes and Internet - relate reasoning textiles that reply to heart rate and line pressure . Parents are already discovering the benefit of that kind of engineering with the Exmobaby System : jammies that quantify an infant ’s body temperature and other vital signal .
5. Holomax theater
6. Workout bikes in Café ’80s
7. Barcode License Plates
8. Flying Cars
viaNatasha Yong
A recollective channel of sci - fi movies would have you believe flying cable car are just on the celestial horizon . After watching a TV special in 1960 about what the world would await like in 1985 , an 8 - twelvemonth - old Gale “ was certain looking frontwards to fly railcar , ” he says . “ I did n’t think I ’d ever have to get a driver ’s licence — I’d only have to get a pilot ’s license . ” Alas , the real - mankind 2015 wo n’t have the prevalence of wing cars that future Hill Valley did . But futurists do have their center on hopeful prototypes from companies likeMoller InternationalandTerrafugia . The bounteous roadblocks now are the noise level of these prototypes and the Federal Aviation Administration . “ There ’s going to be a lot of attorney between here and take flight cars , ” Rogers says . Hiemstra , however , is bright that flush buyer will be able to buy a ego - navigating , personal flying fomite by 2030 .
So where we ’re choke , we will want route … but not for longsighted .
