'Back To Future' Saga Predicted Cubs Will Win It All In 2015
(CBS) -- This should be the year the Cubs make it to the World Series -- if you believe in the saga of Marty McFly.
Fans of the "Back to the Future" franchise know exactly what CBS 2's Vince Gerasole is talking about.
Is your flux capacitor working? The time travel film series has a strong legion of fans. In the second installment, the year 2015 is when title character Marty McFly flashes forward in the second installment, which contains many predictions about the future. Some actually came true.
As for the Cubs, "They could possibly be a wild card," North Side resident David Casden says.
At Harry Carry's Sports Museum fans can find props from the 1989 film, like the stats book documenting that Cubs win, and the futuristic "hoverboard," the anti-gravity skateboard used by McFly.
That may be a stretch, but throughout the film there are glimpses of things that came to pass, including Marty's sister's phone glasses. They may remind you of something we call Google Glasses.
And all those screens where Marty talks to his boss may look familiar, too; nowadays we call it Skype or Facetime.
Columbia College film professor Ron Falzone says the movie's creators weren't really trying to predict things like flying cars, but they may have inadvertently influenced innovators.
"There is a freshness to that movie that astonishes me every time I see it," he says.
So what are Hollywood futurists drumming up in 2015 for the decades ahead?
In the "Hunger Games," you can send supplies in flying boxes across the country. Companies like FedEx and UPS would like to make drone deliveries in the future.
