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WATCH: Great Scott! Back To The Future Day finally arrives

Thirty years ago, Marty McFly arrived today. The hero of Back To The Future Part II left 1985 in ...
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08.18 21 Oct 2015


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WATCH: Great Scott! Back To The Future Day finally arrives

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08.18 21 Oct 2015


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Thirty years ago, Marty McFly arrived today.

The hero of Back To The Future Part II left 1985 in a DeLorean, hit 88mph and found himself in 2015 - October 21st, to be precise.

"You mean we're in the future?" McFly asked Dr Emmett Brown.

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Well, here we are in the future.

The 1989 film actually got a fair bit right - videoconferencing, robotic drones, using fingerprints to pay, electric cars (if not proper flying ones).

Other predictions didn't materialise. A Segway is not a hoverboard.

But the film missed arguably the two biggest technological advances of the past 30 years - the internet and smartphones.

That is because predicting the future is tricky.

In honour of McFly's arrival, we took a look at the science versus the science fiction.

3D cinema, fingerprint scanners and video phones are all realities now - but we still have a bit to go.

But don't just take our word for it, here's Dr Emmet 'Doc' Brown:


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