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It was 30 years ago when Marty McFly went back to the future to save his kids. He came in a time when there were hoverboards and flying cars, clothes that fit every person and self-lacing shoes. When  you look at the movie you will see a lot of things that came true, just in a different way. But what can we say about 30 years from now? If we were to step into the DeLorean to travel to October 21, 2045 what would we see?

 

Flying cars already exist but we don´t use them. Hoverboards now have wheels, but there are people who try to make them without. The self-lacing shoes came out this year, there are only a few and you can bid on them (the money goes to the Michael J. Fox foundation for Parkinson’s research) but maybe they will be on the shelves permanently in 2045. These, of course, are the big things we see, but from all those small predictions most of them really came true, such as the video chat, (virtual) computer games, vacuum transport tubes, knowing when it is going to rain and when it will stop, not using a turntable any longer, using less paper, being able to open doors with your thumb, even a small portable computer. And there are  more things you can see in the movie we do/have or don´t do/have these days. And yes, these are things people were already trying to invent in the year the movie was made, but still, all those things came true.

“Will art still exist and if it does,

will there still be people who make it?

Will there finally be world peace or will every country be at war?

Will everybody be happier?"

So if you look at it, technology really made a big jump over those years, and without that jump we wouldn´t have things such as cell phones and laptops in our lives these days.

 

30 years from now, everything will probably be as virtual as it will ever get, maybe children won´t have to go to school anymore and follow classes in their own homes, or there will be even more to learn for those children . Will art still exist and if it does,  will there still be people who make it?  Will there finally be world peace or will every country be at war? Will everybody be happier? There are so many things we could ask, there are so many conclusions we could make. There are already so many predictions made about the future. There´s only one thing we can say about the future, every day we get one day closer, and every day we go one day back.

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