The Back To The Future hoverboard is here!

After travelling back in time to1955 in 1985’s original film of the franchise, McFly and inventor Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown travel 26 years into the future to try and prevent the former’s son from going to prison.

We can “obtain” songs and “stream” movies – phrases that didn’t even exist in 1985.

Tablet computers, video calls and wireless gaming are all commonplace in today’s society, but we haven’t quite managed flying cars yet.

In 1985 Director Robert Zemeckis, Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and Producer/Screenwriter Bob Gale embarked on a three-part journey through time that broke box office records worldwide and catapulted Back to the Future into one of the most beloved trilogies in motion picture history.

Though not but in full swing, we even have biometric know-how for paying payments or unlocking doorways with a fingerprint, and off-the-shelf sensible glasses comparable to these worn by Marty’s offspring.

Thirty years ago, most futurists would have given flying cars by 2015 “greater than 50-50 odds”, independent futurist Jack Uldrich told Agence France-Presse by telephone from Minneapolis.

Sci-fi has influenced scientific advancement through the ages, but the task may become harder as technological development accelerates exponentially. Who knows, the experts say.

That may seem like just a cute coincidence, since the Cubs winning a World Series has been at the butt end of pop culture jokes for decades, but the timing of the prediction is pretty uncanny; especially when you consider the fact that the Cubs have already broken tradition just by making it to the NLCS.

Dawson foresees a future not with flying automobiles per se, however somewhat self-driving pods – a less expensive and safer various.

One thing that the movie got wildly wrong: lawyers have not been “abolished”.