Great Scott! Last month, we entered the future. Rather, we went
back to the future.
Ask any fan and they will explain that October 21, 2015, was the
day that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in the Back to the
Future movies. Those '80s movies made plenty of predictions for
2015. How accurate were those predictions? How far have we come in
the three decades since those movies came out?
If you walk around downtown Vancouver long enough, you'll
catch a glimpse of one of those predictions. I'm talking about
the people seemingly hovering on small motorized platforms. You can
see them zipping around pedestrians like a mogul skier. If it's
the first time you see this, it's pretty startling. From the
waist up, you'd think they were levitating! But look a little
closer and you'll see they aren't actually hovering above
ground. Still, it's pretty darn close to the real thing.
