Go see it for yourself. Find the movie called Back to the Future Two. When a kid was about eight years old and they
got to seen this movie in the theater, they actually believed that one day they
can live in a world with all this cold stuff in 2015. Our kids was so happy to look forward into
the future that we didn’t have the heart to tell them it was just a movie. I’m so old, I grew up watching the Jetsons
and I thought that they were cool and as an adult I would be driving in the air
over all the traffic. I think about it
when I am sitting in traffic. But here
we are in the future we should have learned our lessons from the Jetsons era and this time
made it all happen.
Why wouldn’t you want to grow up
if you thought that when you grow up you could magically rehydrate a miniature
pizza, pop it in the oven, and a regular size pizza appears? Well, we’re still waiting for that to happen to. We did make some progress. Those TV glasses on
the McFly’s look a lot like Goggles new glass project. The electronic billboards at the valley look
a lot like the flashy advertisements in Times Square in Manhattan. However, I guess it is unlikely that we will get
Hoverboard’s instead of skateboards, power laces on our sneakers instead of still having to tie
them.
It is hard to deal with the
realization that the future that seems so wonderful and far off in these old
movies that the time is already here. In
the eighties they predicted that we would have an actual RoboCop. Well it is clear that the only progress that
we’re going to make with that guy is just an updated fictional movie about
another RoboCop. I guess life never
ends up how you imagine it. If you cling
to firmly to an idea of what the future
should be like, you are setting yourself
up for disappointment.
That is worth remembering in this
world of predictions and betting on games and wondering what the stock market
will do next. The only thing to be learned
is that there is no road map for life. Doc said it best in the movie Back To The
Future when he said, “roads. Where we
are going we won’t be needing any roads” that makes it all kind of religious
now.
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