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Some of the most famous fashion designers in the US today have been asked to forecast what Eve [a woman shown on the screen] will look like in AD 2000. One idea is a dress that can be adapted for morning, afternoon, or evening. It's the sleeves, what does it! According to another artist, one dress of the future will consist of transparent net; the net probably to catch the males. Apparently in AD 2000 we shall be having a hair-raising time! Yet another designer goes so far as to believe that skirts will disappear entirely, shoes will have cantilever heels, and an electric belt will adapt the body to climatic changes. The lightly (likely?) clad woman of tomorrow--ooh, swish!--will move in an atmosphere that's scientifically kept at the right temperature. The future bride in a wedding dress of glass. What the groom will wear--apart from a worried look--isn't mentioned. A dress of aluminium, with a sash to change it for afternoon or evening. And an electric headlight to help her to find an honest man. As for him, if he marries at all, there won't be any shaving, collars, ties, or pockets. He'll be fitted with a telephone, a radio, and containers for coins, keys, and candy for cuties.

We thought computers were going to be used for all these weird things--strange geeky things like controlling the lights in your house--and that turned out not to be the case.

Source: Steve Wozniak in "iWoz"

1:00 - Doc's TV glasses (the silver ones)
1:30 - cars run on biomaterial
2:20 - VTOL flying cars, with the opening credits suggesting jet-like abilities
4:20 - sky highway, floating signs
5:29 - sleep inducer (like the MIB memory wiper)
6:40 - to-the-second weather predictions (predicts when rain would stop to the second)
7:00 - describing rejuvenation tech: took out wrinkles, hair repair, changed blood, added 30-40 years to his life, replaced colon(?), had some kind of skin thing that he removed from his face
6:40/7:20 - trash is organized / crushed into cubes for pickup, and seemed grouped into recycling etc.
7:40 - some kind of fancy dufflebag for storing clothing. there's a button that made part of it go clear
7:45 - binocs (and more?) in his hand, it looks just like a smart phone
7:50 - Marty Jr's clothing
8:01 - phone booth!
8:07 - Nike shoes
8:30 - auto-adjusting clothing (the jacket starts out with long sleeves that adjust when he pushes a button near the zipper)
8:39 - kids wear their pants inside-out (with the pockets hanging out)
9:02 - lots of giant laserdiscs in the trash
9:05 - "class of '16" graffiti
9:05 - '80s nostalgia cafe (not far off from the oldie-videogame bars)
9:34 - USA Today in print
- slamball, 3 min mile, Queen Diana, female president
9:45 - abolished all lawyers, 2 hour trial (faster trials), 15-year conviction for stealing, 20-year conviction for attempted jailbreak
10:20 - plastic tie? Doc is wearing something weird
10:40 - bionic implants (this needs to happen soon)
10:50 - lots of flyers on the side of the building, mailbox on the corner w/ some kind of special device (fax machine?)
11:00 - hover-surfboard, wacky clothing (the female is wearing tights, maybe analogous to yoga pants?)
[so far I'm seeing that fashion has not changed as much as the movie makers expected, eg jeans, suits, muted colors are still widespread]
11:07 - "Blues" shop in the background
11:10 - the courthouse has been converted into a mall
11:15 - kid is riding a bicycle but it looks weird (in fact people are turning to the retro '50s style!)
minute 11 - funky architecture on the buildings
11:25 - lots of female cops
11:35 - LED sign in the background (things have gotten way more advanced), Jaws 19
11:37 - Vietnam tourism sign
11:40 - Texaco robot mechanic
11:50 - Jaws hologram
12:00 - hippies in the background?
- video / audio ad
- the ad mentions that society is in the process of converting old cars to flying cars
12:27 - vintage shops selling '80s stuff like the '84 computer
12:50 - '80s cafe w/ vintage arcade
13:00 - robot MJ explaining the menu
13:09 - exerbike w/ screen while eating, automated waiter TV screen
13:16 - reagan / khomeini TV waiters
13:35 - pepsi comes out of the table
15:30 - kids criticize the videogame for requiring the use of your hands
17:30 - the bully has a chicken sound effect at the ready to use against McFly (so, at-the-ready sound effects)
17:40 - an auto-extending bat (used by Biff's grandson), a mini TV screen is at one of the diner tables (now we have smartphones, which serve the same purpose)
18:25 - hoverboard
21:17 - auto-drying jacket at the push of a button
22:30 - books have dust-repellant paper, and most people don't know what a dust-jacket is (so dust jackets have been gone for a while)
23:50 - floating USA Today reporter robot (similar to the quadrocopters)
24:01 - pitcher suspended for bionic arm use
25:00 - trash robot that moves around
"encountering herself 30 years older could cause her to faint" (still true)
27:04 - suburbs look the same, but w/ lights on the curbs and on the garages
27:31 - thumbprint door lock. it looks like there may be a camera as well
27:53 - the cop has LED lights on her hat that display a message
27:59 - the house has a screen that displays beautiful views 24/7, it's a TV channel
28:33 - TV screen in the wall by the door
29:00 - floating / hover device for the grandfather that has him upside-down
30:45 - Biff's taxi fare is $174.50, and he pays by thumbprint (this isn't that far off)
31:18 - fresh fruit comes down from the ceiling ("Garden Center")
31:35 - big flat-screen TV, voice control, playing multiple channels on the same screen, with hundreds of channels to choose from (with YouTube it's more like thousands / millions)
31:50 - smart home talks to Marty Sr. when he comes home
32:27 - a floating dog-walker robot the size of a roomba that floats at about chest-height
33:10 - minipizza that goes into a "hydrator", is ready immediately, and becomes much larger. it's controlled via voice.
33:34 - weird glasses on the daughter and son, they seem to be TV screens but also have access to the phone. not far off from smart phones / google glass.
33:48 - Marty Sr. wearing strange watch, double-tie
34:00 - the house still has a single phone line, but each person has a separate device to use to use it
34:15 - video calls with smart info about the other person (their occupation, favorite foods). AT&T is still big.
35:55 - Marty's boss was listening in on his convo with his coworker and fires him. People are still using fax, but they have multiple machines.

An early generation of enhancement implants might help elite golfers improve their swing by automating their mental practice. A later generation might allow weekend golfers to skip practice altogether. Once neuroscientists figure out how to reverse-engineer the end results of practice, "neurocompilers" might be able to install the results of a year's worth of training directly into the brain, all in one go.

That won't happen in the next decade or maybe even in the one after that. But before the end of the century, our computer keyboards and trackpads will seem like a joke; even Google Glass 3.0 will seem primitive. Why would you project information onto your eyes (partly occluding your view) when you could write information into your brain so your mind can directly interpret it? Why should a computer wait for you to say or type what you mean rather than anticipating your needs before you can even articulate them?

By the end of this century, and quite possibly much sooner, every input device that has ever been sold will be obsolete. Forget the "heads-up" displays that the high-end car manufactures are about to roll out, allowing drivers to see data without looking away from the road. By the end of the century, many of us will be wired directly into the cloud, from brain to toe.