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Slate Magazine
Future Tense
 
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Dear Slate-liens,
 
This is no imaginary story! No hoax! It’s Oct. 21, 2015, the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in Back to the Future Part II. Though its vision of tomorrow remains influential, it’s really a movie about the dangers of trying to predict the future. But that’s not going to stop us from wondering when we’re going to get those hoverboards. If you really want to understand how the movie constructed its version of 2015, listen carefully to its slang. And if you’re still not sated, check out these other time terrific time-travel movies.
 
Here in the actual 2015, we spent more of our week than we’d like to admit playing video games, one of them as irredeemable as it is impossibly addictive. David Auerbach looked into Prison Architect—a game that is actually good—and investigated the peculiar path its developers took to success. And on an even more affirmative front, Emmanuel Felton discussed whether games could help students learn the Common Core.
 
Here are some of the other stories that had us contemplating dark secrets:
 
  • Counterterrorism: Can we use A.I. chatbots to distract ISIS?
  • Star maps: For reasons of national security, the U.S. Naval Academy has started teaching celestial navigation again.
  • Puppy love: A new device promises to report on pet emotions.
  • Drone warfare: A company has developed a prototype “radio rifle” to knock drones out of the sky.
  • Digital rights: In a landmark decision, a U.S. appeals court found that the massive scanning project Google Books falls under fair use.
 Traveling at 88 mph,
 
Jacob Brogan
 
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I was so annoyed by the end of the day at work; all the youngsters were repeating classic lines from the movie every freakin second. These kids weren't even born when back to the future was first released. I get the I have probably quoted lines from movies from before my time, but not all day. GRRRRRRR

I think I am just tired, I usually have a sense of humor...

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

I was so annoyed by the end of the day at work; all the youngsters were repeating classic lines from the movie every freakin second. These kids weren't even born when back to the future was first released. I get the I have probably quoted lines from movies from before my time, but not all day. GRRRRRRR

I think I am just tired, I usually have a sense of humor...

 Why didn't you make like a tree and get out of there?



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Make like a tree and leave. Get it together! Lol!!!!

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Dont put baby in a corner!!!!



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Ohfour wrote:

Make like a tree and leave. Get it together! Lol!!!!

 All right then, LEAVE! And take your book with you!



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Not to pick on anyone in particular, but, aren't all lawyers supposed to have been abolished by now?



Marty McFly: [Reading the newspaper from 2015] "Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr. was tried, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary."? Within two hours?

Doc: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers.

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Ohfour wrote:

Dont put baby in a corner!!!!

 ? baby ?



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ed11563 wrote:
Ohfour wrote:

Dont put baby in a corner!!!!

 ? baby ?

 Dirty dancing, Ed.  Surely you've seen the movie.



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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
Ohfour wrote:

Dont put baby in a corner!!!!

 ? baby ?

 Dirty dancing, Ed.  Surely you've seen the movie.

 Or one black 67 impala!

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Honestly. I don't see what the fascination is with Back to the Future. It wasn't a very good movie. None of them were.

I can't remember a single line from the movie.



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I see you shiver with antci.......

Pation.

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
Ohfour wrote:

Dont put baby in a corner!!!!

 ? baby ?

 Dirty dancing, Ed.  Surely you've seen the movie.

Yes, but I don't remember a baby in Back to the Future. Did I miss one? 



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