The more time travel movies we see, the more it becomes clear that the future is too close. In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, our hero zipped from 1985 to 2015 and found technology to be quite advanced 30 years into the future. Yet that date is now ten years in the past and we still don't have flying cars. Quite a few other movies set in the future have already been lapped without interplanetary travel or dystopian collapse -not to mention time travel itself. Those who follow such things have a sense of how long major technological advances can take. Plus, we still watch movies that are 50 years old. Star Trek had the right idea, setting its stories 300 years into the future, although we may still be watching when the time comes. Chris and Jack (previously at Neatorama) leverage that movie knowledge to judge whether they've really been visited by a time traveler. -via Geeks Are Sexy
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