I spent most of the school day wishing students a "Happy Back to the Future Day." While some of my fellow staff members expressed concern that the students wouldn't know what I was talking about (not to mention concern for my sanity), a surprising number of students' eyes lit up; several students spoke enthusiastically about how their parents had them watch the movie "when they were young." Among staff, by far the most common response was "That's today; isn't it?", but that was closely followed by "I want my hoverboard" or something similar.
I, too, a missing the hoverboard or the flying car that Back to the Future II seemed to promise us, but all-in-all I prefer our 2015 to the 2015 predicted in the movie (except that I would have liked for the Cubs to at least make it to, if not win, the World Series). We have made great advances in the past thirty years. They might not seem so extraordinary to us since we've been on their journey of development, but so much of what we use every day is greater than anyone in the 80's could have predicted.
There's something about reaching a day that was predicted in a movie or book from the past. Today gave all of a chance to look back over the past thirty years (or 26) and see how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It gave us a chance to measure ourselves against our expectations. I would like to think that we've done quite well.
If nothing else, I'm glad we were wrong about the "future's" fashions.
I, too, a missing the hoverboard or the flying car that Back to the Future II seemed to promise us, but all-in-all I prefer our 2015 to the 2015 predicted in the movie (except that I would have liked for the Cubs to at least make it to, if not win, the World Series). We have made great advances in the past thirty years. They might not seem so extraordinary to us since we've been on their journey of development, but so much of what we use every day is greater than anyone in the 80's could have predicted.
There's something about reaching a day that was predicted in a movie or book from the past. Today gave all of a chance to look back over the past thirty years (or 26) and see how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It gave us a chance to measure ourselves against our expectations. I would like to think that we've done quite well.
If nothing else, I'm glad we were wrong about the "future's" fashions.
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