Did ‘Back To The Future Part 2’ Predict 2015 Correctly?

(Written for Lost In The Multiplex)

Back to The Future Part II was shown on TV this weekend, leading me to question how right it was in its prediction for 2015.

At first I thought they had got it all wrong; we don’t have flying cars, so surely that’s enough to say that we haven’t reached the level of technology that the film foresaw. But after reading an article referring to a prototype of an electric DeLorean and the experimentation of a hoverboard, the world predicted in Back to the Future Part II looks closer to reality than I first imagined.