The never to be and never should be futures of 2015

[JoeZhang]

So with 2015 upon us - let us consider the futures we never got (yes back to the future is a given ).

defenders of the earth is set in 2015 - anyone got favourite futures that are now nearly the past?

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Funny thing about the timeline at the beginning of Back to The Future II is that it itself is erased when Marty doesn't race Needles and get in the accident that messed up his rock star ambition. Although we never do see the 'improved' version of it (Unless it was revisited in the cartoon or video game).

 

[Snaploud]

Funny thing about the timeline at the beginning of Back to The Future II is that it itself is erased when Marty doesn't race Needles and get in the accident that messed up his rock star ambition. Although we never do see the 'improved' version of it (Unless it was revisited in the cartoon or video game).

Good point. It's possible that all the future tech was invented by the Doc and that none of the really cool stuff (hover-boards, flying cars, etc.) entered the open market because the Doc decided to spend his time having adventures with his new family.

 

[ALF]

...Although we never do see the 'improved' version of it (Unless it was revisited in the cartoon or video game).

2015 was revisited in "Back to the Future: The Ride", not sure if you'd consider it canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBui6iuvzhA

Too bad most of that ride is frickkin' dinosaurs (and you have to be in USJapan to see it!!)!1

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've always thought that part of Marty's "mission" was to fix the timeline so that the real 2015 doesn't turn out so ridiculous and cartoonish as it is shown in BTTF 2...

Oh, and the only reason 'Hilldale' was so run down was because Old Biff's interference in 1955 (giving his younger self the sports almanac) was already starting to ripple through towards the present.

 

[shivkala]

Wikipedia has a rather sparse page on the fictional 2015s.

According to Event Horizon, the first permanent colony will be established on the moon.

Oh, and I'm going to be betting on The London Kings this year. They signed Buck Bokai, who I'm hearing good things about...

 

[Ethros]

^ I always wondered, was that meant to be London as in London, England?
Yeah, because baseball is so popular in Britain...

 

[MacLeod]

Non-canon I know, but according to the novel Federation it is London, United Kingdom.

But we are dealing with a fictional universe who's to say that universe Baseball became a more global sport.

 

[Ethros]

It just seems an odd choice for whoever wrote the line in the DS9 (I believe) ep it was from. Like now, it wasn't popular in the early 90s so I don't see what they thought was gonna change in then next 25 years really. But yeah fair enough

 

[Shawnster]

2015
Construction of Expeditionary Forces vessels continues in preparation for large scale mission to find the homeworld of the Robotech Masters.

http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/timeline/viewevents.php

 

[Mike Farley]

Roy Batty is "born" this year based on his expiration date in Blade Runner's 2019. Which means that there should already be Nexus 1-5 units running around.

 

[tomswift2002]

Funny thing about the timeline at the beginning of Back to The Future II is that it itself is erased when Marty doesn't race Needles and get in the accident that messed up his rock star ambition. Although we never do see the 'improved' version of it (Unless it was revisited in the cartoon or video game).

Good point. It's possible that all the future tech was invented by the Doc and that none of the really cool stuff (hover-boards, flying cars, etc.) entered the open market because the Doc decided to spend his time having adventures with his new family.

It's also possible that the Doc somehow managed to make sure that Laserdiscs became the dominant video format, and VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray never became more than a niche format.

 

[Snaploud]

Funny thing about the timeline at the beginning of Back to The Future II is that it itself is erased when Marty doesn't race Needles and get in the accident that messed up his rock star ambition. Although we never do see the 'improved' version of it (Unless it was revisited in the cartoon or video game).

Good point. It's possible that all the future tech was invented by the Doc and that none of the really cool stuff (hover-boards, flying cars, etc.) entered the open market because the Doc decided to spend his time having adventures with his new family.

It's also possible that the Doc somehow managed to make sure that Laserdiscs became the dominant video format, and VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray never became more than a niche format.

It's a futuristic version of LaserDisc. Perhaps the LaserDisc brand turned completely digital (taking the role of DVD and eventually Blu-Ray) while maintaining its larger size (possibly to keep some backwards compatibility in its LaserDisc players).

And, yes, Doc may have had some role in it... He probably recommended that LaserDisc make those changes (from analog to digital video) in the first place.