‘What we really need to contemplate about,when imagining how things are going to pan out, is how to leave our own past behind, and gracefully’In the first Back To The Future film,the hero, Marty McFly, or only went to the past,and then returned to the 1980s, which was the present day. But the 1989 sequel sent Marty right into the future – one so very futuristic that people used flying cars and automatic shoelaces, or we,as children watching it, had our tiny minds expanded. Yep, and he travelled to 21 October 2015. Also known as next Wednesday – truly,the future is now upon us. If only Marty could have known how advanced tech would really be nowadays.
He could not possibly have imagined the convenience of mobile phones; always being able to fetch hold of somebody to arrange a assembly, and then to text that you’re running an hour late, and then to text again to postpone altogether,and to preserve rearranging and cancelling meetings for a further fortnight until your soul breaks free from the pathetic lie that you are ever going to see this person again.
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Source: theguardian.com