Others' Predictions of the Future

• In this case, if living underwater had become economical, that would suggest that living above-water had become expensive enough to make it worth the investment of figuring out how to live underwater.

• In this case, if there had been a number of newspaper articles about underwater exploration at that time, people may have assumed that this trend would continue.

• In this case, they're assuming that because aircraft are analogous to sailing ships, that aircraft will look and function like sailing ships, when in reality the entire nature of warfare would change.

• all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns
• Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie, which handles chores not otherwise rendered trivial by...(next point)
• the home's numerous push-button Space Age-envisioned conveniences.
• talking dog
• George Jetson's workweek is typical of his era: an hour a day, two days a week.
• Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top.
• Daily life is leisurely, assisted by numerous labor-saving devices
• Despite this, everyone complains of exhausting hard labor and difficulties living with the remaining inconveniences.
• Elroy attends Little Dipper School, where he studies space history, astrophysics, and star geometry.
• massive surface pollution necessitated a move to the elevated platforms seen in the series
• R.U.D.I.: is George's work computer and one of his best friends
• They live in an apartment and have a superintendent. 

Woz describing the thinking of the 1970s: 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"

• good list of the predictions in the movie

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• 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.

• those are very specific predictions