
Written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, it stars Michael J. Any fender bender would result in cars crashing to the ground below, perhaps on pedestrians or buildings.Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Introduce above and below lanes and the entire social fabric would collapse. It’s hard enough to get people to politely navigate a two-dimensional roadway without terrible collisions all the time. Sure, Google glass is a thing, but there are already movements afoot to establish boundaries and good social practices with respect to wearable computers, and at least Google glass isn’t everywhere just yet.Īlso a thing that would be a complete disaster in practice, which is something you know in your heart of hearts if you have ever driven in any big city.

Yes, a pizza in four seconds sounds nice, but at what cost? Fortunately, trends in food are moving away from such time-saving, health-and-enjoyment-destroying food disasters and toward taking a little more time to make good meals with real food. They wouldn’t be as cool as you think anyway. Actually this can go for most of the clothes worn in the future. His hat is some kind of meat tenderizer turned helmet, he wears pointy, elvish steel toed boots and his clothes have some kind of human-expanding element that makes him bigger and stronger (which would be cool to have, but not for bad guys to have). Or Griff’s entire costume, for that matter. The paper-wasting ink hogs get jammed, require maintenance, and are just no match for a nice scan and send or even just snapping a picture with a smartphone. Fax machines are not really a part of life anymoreĬertainly not to the extent they are in Back to the Future II-and that’s a good thing.
