This post by Morris Miselowski sparked fun and interest:
http://businessfuturist.com/time-travel-comes-true-this-wednesday-backtothefuturepart2-various-radio-stations/
It’s also one of the movie’s that sparked our curiosity about what’s next and is the source of the two questions I get asked most often – where’s my hoverboard and where’s my flying car?
It also shows how wildly our life changes in such a short period of time.
In 1985 it would have been impossible to believe that the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would collapse. South Africa apartheid would end. A terrorist attack would fell the World Trade Centre. That 4 billion and growing smart phones would inhabit the world. That snail mail would have given way to digital mail. That the word Google would be used so readily in everyday conversation. That sharing our most intimate thoughts and actions online in social media would be so ordinary. That cures and treatments for many diseases including AIDS would have been found and that China would be on target to become an economic superpower."
While the industrial sector does not move as fast, it has transformed since 1985 from the first generation PLCs, and now you see operational interaction, decisions faster, and across the globe manufacturing value chains.
Time is getting shorter with product runs, and decisions.
http://businessfuturist.com/time-travel-comes-true-this-wednesday-backtothefuturepart2-various-radio-stations/
"In 23 minutes and 8 seconds, I need you to
look out your window and see if you can spot Back to the Future 2's DeLorean
flying car with Marty McFly on board as it lands from its journey from 1989 to
the future - today Wednesday 21st October 2015.
What will he find, what will have changed and what will he think of the changes he sees?
Despite the fact we don’t quite yet have hoverboards and DeLorean flying cars, fuelled with rubbish turned into nuclear fission there are lots of things that are predicted in the 1985 film that have come about.
Here’s the stuff that’s come true:
What will he find, what will have changed and what will he think of the changes he sees?
Despite the fact we don’t quite yet have hoverboards and DeLorean flying cars, fuelled with rubbish turned into nuclear fission there are lots of things that are predicted in the 1985 film that have come about.
Here’s the stuff that’s come true:
- Flat screen TV’s
- Video conferencing
- Fingerprint biometrics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Voice activated and responsive
technology
- Hydroponics
- Brain controlled / wireless
video games
- Handheld tablets
- Wearable technology
- Holographic displays
- Visual Displays
- Drones
- Bionic Implants
and here’s some that’s
almost come true:
- Hover boards – although there
are some versions of boards that might be called hover boards
- Self-lacing shoes – although
Nike took out a patent on this tech and is suspected to release a version
for next week’s anniversary
- Turning garbage into fuel – we
can do and have done it for 30 years, but not with cold fusion
- Pepsi Perfect -although Pepsi
is said to be releasing a limited edition for next week
- Automated fuelling is being
trialled now by Tesla and others
- Stationery exercise bike at
cafes – but we are very sports and health conscience
- Flying cars – we have them but
just can’t use them
- Fax machines @ all phone booths
– this if of course past tech, but it did infer an internet of sorts would
be in existence
- Rejuvenation masks
It’s also one of the movie’s that sparked our curiosity about what’s next and is the source of the two questions I get asked most often – where’s my hoverboard and where’s my flying car?
It also shows how wildly our life changes in such a short period of time.
In 1985 it would have been impossible to believe that the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would collapse. South Africa apartheid would end. A terrorist attack would fell the World Trade Centre. That 4 billion and growing smart phones would inhabit the world. That snail mail would have given way to digital mail. That the word Google would be used so readily in everyday conversation. That sharing our most intimate thoughts and actions online in social media would be so ordinary. That cures and treatments for many diseases including AIDS would have been found and that China would be on target to become an economic superpower."
While the industrial sector does not move as fast, it has transformed since 1985 from the first generation PLCs, and now you see operational interaction, decisions faster, and across the globe manufacturing value chains.
Time is getting shorter with product runs, and decisions.
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