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October 21st 2015: Marty McFly arrives in the future

On this day in 2015, Marty McFly and his friend Dr. Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown, arrive from the year 1985. Marty has travelled to the future in order to prevent his son from being arrested, but in the process accidentally allows his nemesis Biff Tannen to steal the DeLorean time machine. Tannen travels back to 1955 and gives his younger self a sport almanac, which alters history by allowing Tannen to become supremely wealthy. The year 2015 which Marty and Doc visit is a futuristic land of flying cars, hoverboards, bizarre fashion, and wearable tech – including self-drying clothes and self-tying laces. While many of these things remain fanciful, some of the technology Marty uses is not too far from reality.

“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…”