WEBVTT - Back to Back to the Future II, Part Two 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.200 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:14.760 forward Thinking, Welcome to forward Thinking. Well podcasts that looks 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.480 of the future and says please don't drive eighty eight, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.720 I don't want to be late again. I'm Jonathan Strickland, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.439 I'm Lauren, and I'm Joe McCormick. And that's the power 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.520 of love. Well, it's actually not the power of love, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 but that's it's another Huey Lewis in the News song 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.120 that also came from the Back to the Future soundtrack. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.400 So that's that's the first time I've ever quoted the 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.919 same song twice in in consecutive episodes. Hey guys, So 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.400 we're doing our second part of our Back to the 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.440 Future Part two extravaganza. Wait say that title again? What 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.479 is it? Is it part two of our Back to 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.600 the Future Part to two part episode about I called 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.080 it back to Back to the Future to part two. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.560 Hey guys, So we're doing a second episode about back 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.240 to the Future because the the the year that they 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.160 go forward to and Back to the Future Part two 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.840 is t which and it turns out that's this year. Yeah, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.000 the year that we're recording this. Maybe if you are 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.320 from the future and listening to past episodes of forward 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.400 digging and just giggling up your sleeve. It's the past, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.640 but right now it's the present. Man, time is hard 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:32.160 or not quite the present yet because it occurs in October. Yeah, 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.000 we're recording this in January, so there's still time for 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.840 all of this to come true. So if you have 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.160 not listened to our first episode about the technology of 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.000 Back to the Future Part two and where the reality 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.840 stacks up against the movie, you should go back check 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.160 out part one and then come to this MP three 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.960 right now, right, and that will make that intro we 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:01.680 had seemed coherent by comparison apparent. Well, last time we 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.360 talked about stuff that appears in the Back to the 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:11.520 Future universe like flying cars, uh, self lacing shoes, adjusting jackets, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.760 three second hydrator, ovens, that a big steamy pizza. Yeah, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:22.280 digital binoculars. Oh what else where do they have? Nest thermostats? Yeah? Yeah, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.560 So we talked a lot about that, digital windows, that 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.360 kind of thing, telescoping self extending baseball bad most important 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.560 piece of technology in the future according to Joe obviously. Um, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.560 but last time we did not talk about the one 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.560 thing that everybody had to be waiting for. So we 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.359 thought we'd do that first in the second part here, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:46.440 which is hoverboards, yeah by Mattel in the in the film, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.480 at least the one that Marty McFly flies on is Yeah. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.000 To be a few different brands, some marketed towards towards 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.960 older kids, some are marketed towards thugs. Yeah, you got 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.680 the thug thug market. It's an a couple of different 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.960 varieties that can either be powered or nonpowered. I'm not sure. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:11.480 Don't work on water unless you got power. Very canny 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.280 impersonation and who I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I I 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.760 did watch this entire movie almost um, just last night, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.160 so I'm an expert right now, right, okay, Well, the 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.559 hoverboard in Back to the Future Part two is basically 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.040 a skateboard without wheels that never touches the ground. It's 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.040 it's again. It's meant to evoke the great skateboard chase 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.160 sequence from the first film. So you know, that is 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.320 kind of one of those instances of hey, you remember 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.040 how much you like this thing when we did in 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.160 that other movie. Well, now we're doing it again, so 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.000 kind of like it's kind of clever actually actually like 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.600 it itself. I actually like it kind of adorable. I 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.920 know I sound like I'm being dismissive, but trust me, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.360 in this case it works. And movies like Anchorman too, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.240 maybe not so much, but in this it works great. Um. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.760 And that's a theme that's throughout all the Back to 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.280 the Future movies exactly, Lauren, the whole idea of history 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.400 repeating itself. Well, so they imagine this technology. It's a 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.200 floating skateboard more or less. Yea, do we actually have 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.479 anything like that now that it's and I know what 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.720 you're gonna say, You're gonna say, oh yes, because I 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.279 saw that video on YouTube and it even had it 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.560 even had Christopher Lloyd, who is obviously an expert on 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.279 the future, and Tony Hawk, who's obviously an expert on 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.800 standing on on pieces of wood that move around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.120 This product is supposedly made by a company called hover, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.040 which is a capital h UV and then a little R. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:49.039 And the video showed lots of celebrities getting on these hoverboards, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.520 floating up off of a parking lot and then zooming around. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.160 Ye and and Christopher Lloyd being kind of doc brownish 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.800 about the whole thing, although not not looking like Doc Brown. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.320 It was Christopher Lloyd. Wasn't him playing the character? Yeah? 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.080 So um, but it was. You know again, it was 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.960 really well produced video, and it fooled I guess some people. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.280 I mean, obviously, the knee jerk reaction for a lot 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.920 of people was this has got to be fake. And uh, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.720 I still see people arguing about it, saying that it 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.480 was real. Right, And then there was a video that 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.560 Tony Hawk made later where he essentially apologized for the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.640 hover videos. So we just thought it would a funny joke. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.839 We never thought anyone was going to take it seriously. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.080 And I'm thinking, like that's I I have a hard 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.919 time believing that no one on that group was hoping 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.360 that folks would take it seriously. I mean, when Back 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.000 to the Future two came out, there was a rumor 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:49.200 specifically created and uh and and distributed that the hoverboard 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.320 technology really did work, and that was just the toy 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.520 companies that were worried about potential lawsuits that were holding 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.960 it back from ever hitting the market. So that was 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.640 back in when this rumor broke, and it was a 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.720 rumor that was supported by Zamacha Zamachi and the rest 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.120 of the film production company. I thought it was hilarious, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.440 but obviously that was a rumor. Uh, this was an 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.120 orchestra at hoax. It was a joke video. It was 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:21.280 made by Funny or Die, so that should tell you something. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.600 I'm sure that there were people when Tony Hawk did 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.039 his video saying, hey, it was all a joke who 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.839 immediately said, oh, no, it was real, and now the 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.400 companies are backing off because it's too dangerous cover up. Yeah, exactly, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.480 it's the whole conspiracy theory thing, right, like any evidence 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.440 to the contrary is manufactured. They were also I think 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.520 a lot of people who saw the original video but 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.080 just weren't aware there was ever a disclaimer, right, And 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.000 if you if you watch the one where Tony Hawk 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.320 is actually quote unquote apologizing, it has behind the scenes 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.000 footage of folks wearing harnesses that are attached to cables 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.680 that are are keeping them suspended, and then they just 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.080 keyed the cables out, the wires, the cable they keyed 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.240 them all out later so that they didn't show up 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.560 on screen. Um, so it's not a real thing. However, 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:18.080 that being said, there is a real hoverboard, but there 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.280 are a lot of qualifiers who have to add to 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.040 wait a minute, what a real hoverboard? Yeah, hindo hoverboards, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.040 I don't believe you. At a Kickstarter, their goal was 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.720 two dollars. They raised half a million, so they definitely 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.119 hit their people are excited about hoverboards, you guys, keeping 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.320 in mind that these are hoverboards that you would only 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.440 be able to use in very specific circumstances and nothing 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.239 outside of them. You couldn't run them on water unless 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.640 you have power. Yeah, you couldn't run them on concrete 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:52.640 or wood or grass or they're using electromagnetic repulsion. So 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.360 we've talked about electro magnets a lot and how you know, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.680 creating magnetic fields is a really powerful thing for lots 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.200 of things. So it's using essentially the same principles as 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:07.320 a maglev train. Uh. And it works on metallic but 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.480 non ferrous surfaces, so things like copper and aluminum, which 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.800 are are non faires. If it were on iron, then 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.400 what would happen is once you started the electro magnets, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.600 they're becoming a magnetic field would be associated with the 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.840 iron as well, which would be an aligned with the device, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.840 and you would end up having a hoverboard that's locked 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.120 to the surface that's on as opposed to one that's 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.040 floating above it. Uh. Non fairest materials is what it 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.960 allows it to have this kind of um repulsion aspect 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.600 and be able to to float above it. Uh. I 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.599 read some reports of various folks, like people from Engadget 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.600 who got to try this out or wired. They said 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.280 it was very, uh, disorienting and scary because you're you're 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.800 on something where you're like, I don't want to fall off. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.000 But again, because you're limited to those surfaces, it's not 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.920 something that you could just purchase and then you know, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.280 ride home unless the streets are paid with copper where 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.080 you live, so you you know. I could see this 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.120 being used for something like an attraction at a park 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.200 where they've set up a specific area with like an 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:19.120 aluminum sheet floor where you can, you know, after signing 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.679 a waiver, go on one of these. But I don't 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.360 think it's going to be something that is going to 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.280 be uh you know, Mattel is not gonna be marketing 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:32.320 this to little girls, not within the next nine months. Yeah. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:33.760 I mean, I hate to be a downer, but I 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.480 feel like this almost doesn't count because of the special 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.360 circumstances that are required, like in this case, you might 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:45.079 as well just take a snowboard into a vertical wind tunnel. Okay, 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.920 so indoor skydiving title, Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.120 it's not. It's it's similar in spirit to what we 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.760 saw in the movie, but obviously the limitations mean that 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.120 it's nothing like the experience that you saw in the film. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.320 I mean, you couldn't ride this over any surface besides 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.120 water unless you have power. Uh, it wouldn't do any 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.200 It wouldn't do any good. The power, by the way, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.440 as I recall, it's like a trio of thrusters that 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.240 are on the back of of griffs hoverboard. It's got 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.520 like a little almost like little jet engines on the 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.440 very back of it, and that's what the power is. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.480 That's what allows it to have forward propulsion, even over water. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.880 But anyway, yeah, doesn't doesn't quite fit, which is a 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.240 real big bummer. I mean, the hoverboard was one of 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:35.880 those iconic pieces of technology shown off in the film 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.520 that people really um got attached to. They thought it 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.839 was super cool. You know, personally, I don't feel all 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:47.640 that robbed of magic. I think actual skateboarding is difficult enough. Yeah, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.560 I can't imagine not injuring myself on a hubboard. Yeah, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.160 I don't need to be an extra few inches off 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.840 the ground when I fall terribly skateboard, I can't time 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.760 I get on it. I can't do a skateboard, I 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:05.040 can't can't do wakeboards. Anything that requires balance on top 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.480 of the board, forget it. Um Um, I might as 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.120 well just go ahead and throw myself at the ground. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.040 So uh yeah, that but that's that's one we definitely 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.440 needed to cover, and we got that one out all 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.360 the way. But there's still a lot of other technologies 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.920 that appear in that film. You know, I don't think 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.400 last time we ever got around to communication technology. No, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.120 we didn't really. We mentioned some things where you could 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.240 consume content, but we didn't talk about ones where you 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.760 could actually communicate with people. Ah yeah, And and video 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.640 calls play a pretty big role in the plot line, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.199 such as it is if you want to be snarky 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.480 about it, um because yeah, yeah, so so they have 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.040 these huge screen TVs that can I guess either function 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.800 or double as as video call centers. Yeah, there don't 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.280 appear to be any cameras attached, but that's okay. Yeah, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.640 maybe that's worked into the bezel. Sure, all right, I okay, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.880 i'd say we have this. I don't think anybody really 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.880 likes it all that much. Some people do, but I 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.520 think it's I think it's in very specific use cases, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.480 Like I don't think there are that many people who 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.000 use this as their regular means of communication with other people. Yeah. Yeah, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.720 it's certainly not. If you want to call up your 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:24.559 coworker who happens to be flee Um. Yeah, and because 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.840 because that dude is totally flee Um and just chat 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.320 with him about something illegal, You're you're not necessarily going 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.199 to go straight to a voice to to to a 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.840 video call. I mean you might. You might skype with 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.520 a significant other who's who's on a trip far away, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.640 far away from you, writer, or with family members, or 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.320 you might you might even face time. If you're perhaps 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.280 of a younger generation than anyone sitting in the podcast 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.720 room right now, you might. You might use FaceTime or 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.160 something like that for your daily business and and within work, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.280 you might use it for something like calling into a 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.480 meeting or in the podcast world, we do it all 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.640 the time, or podcasts where you know you have a 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.320 guest host, especially if it's a video podcast. Then you 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.480 might have multiple people calling in a video conferencing, So 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.600 it's not that it's unusual in the year two thousand 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.720 and fifteen, although I don't Again, I don't think of 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.160 that as the primary means of community. Heck, I don't 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.439 even think of calls as being the primary means of 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.240 communication these days. Now it's all text and and things 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.960 of that nature. I don't know that many people who 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.880 actually enjoy talking on the phone anymore. I enjoy talking 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.120 on the phone. I wouldn't want people to see me 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.199 while I'm on the phone. Again, it's a very specific 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.120 use case scenarios that I want anyone to be able 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.120 to look at my hideous visage. I don't think of 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.840 myself as particularly misanthropic, but I very rarely use my 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.320 phone as a phone. Well, phones are interesting if you 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.120 have friends, you want to talk to those. I've heard 0:13:54.520 --> 0:14:00.520 about friends, thank you, I've been working on. Although interesting 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.360 thing also about the phone system in the movie is 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.480 that UM it will along the bottom of the screen, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.679 like like where a newscast might have a little a 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.679 little bit of rolling information. UM it will give you 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.640 the callers identification, their their job, their age, their address, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.360 UM their favorite drinks and hobbies, uh, their family members, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.520 names and ages, the sports that they play, their political affiliations, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.320 their food dislikes. So this is like, this is like 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.200 when you watch a movie where you see a high 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.640 powered executive and they're about to make a phone call 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.520 on their assistant is giving them the skinny on whoever 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.120 they're going to talk to, like Okay, he's got two 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.040 daughters there, blah blah blah. So that that you can 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:45.240 have that that that manufactured personal interaction that actually makes sense. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.000 It sort of combines calls with like the about page 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.560 of a social media program. H right, totally yeah, yeah, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.200 that's like like Facebook is a little bit of what 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.000 it reminded me of. The interesting thing here is that 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.120 I can easily imagine a video calling up that incorporates 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.480 this sort of stuff by scraping information from some other source. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.960 Either you create a profile in the app itself, which 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.560 just makes it easy because then it just refers to itself, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.720 or it scrapes publicly available information off of social media 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.720 profiles or even Google searches that kind of thing, and 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.720 it would populate fields so that you would have this information. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.080 We've seen kind of mock ups of apps like this 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.920 for augmented reality where you know you've seen like the 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.760 smart glasses where a person is looking in a room 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.640 and people's names and they're like little Twitter handles and 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.920 stuff are popping up over their heads. Gives you a 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.480 little bit of information and obviously that brings up questions 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.480 about privacy. It brings up you know, what's appropriate. What 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.840 do we want to make public? Is it is it 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.560 acceptable if we have chosen to make this information public 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.680 that people have easy access to it, or is the 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.280 fact that that access becomes so easy mean that we 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.400 no longer care that we publicly shared it. We want 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.200 there to be a limitation. These questions were still answering. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.880 Places like Europe are answering it through litigation where they 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.000 they there's the story in two thousand and fourteen where 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.960 Google was taken to task and said that there needs 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.520 to be this right to be forgotten where people who 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.480 want to have certain things in their past kind of 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.480 expunged from Google so that something they did, you know, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.000 some stupid thing they did maybe fifteen years ago, or 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.240 something that they got involved in in their past that 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.200 no longer has any relevance in their their current lives 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.560 gets taken out of search results because they don't want 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.040 themselves associated with that. Obviously, that raises a lot of 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.360 questions and a lot of problems. And UM, all this 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.880 being said, you know, we haven't seen a specific application 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.240 as far as I know. That mirrors what we saw 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.520 in Back to the Future too, but it's it's totally 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.280 within the realm of possibility. I don't I don't see 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.080 anything about it that makes it, you know, even even 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:02.680 difficult to pull off. A way in which they we 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.480 talked a few times in the previous episode about ways 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.760 in which this movie did not quite go far enough 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.879 in its imagining of the future. And um, the way 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.720 that this phone system operates within a household is one 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.840 of those ways, because it's a it's a housewide phone 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.879 system that can be accessed from like individual visors, but 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.080 everyone has a single phone number within the family unit. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.200 It's one phone for the household. So they imagined that 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.159 that people that, like the kids, could each have a 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.200 visor that they could check and see who's calling and 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.200 take the calls supposedly on this little headset of theirs. Um, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.280 but it's it's just one household line. They couldn't get 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.320 all the way to individual cell phones, right, yeah, which 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.280 is interesting. I mean I can totally see why they 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.560 went with that. Yeah. Of course, in the late eighties, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.639 I had my own phone number, but I didn't have 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.840 my own phone line. The number also went through the 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.760 same phone line as the only one. It's just that 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.480 it had a different ring to it, so that if 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.960 that ring was going off, my parents knew, oh that's 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.960 one of Jonathan's friends. I'm not even gonna bother picking 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.360 it up. Um, and uh, that was the only thing. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.080 But otherwise it was you know, if I picked up 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.000 the phone, I was, I had the family line was active, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.200 so uh, you know, I can see that they were 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.560 just building on what was already common at the time. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.800 They didn't anticipate a world where we would all have 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.480 devices that have their own dedicated communication channels. Now, surely 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:35.919 the movie understood that Facts wasn't gonna last forever, right, No, no, what, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.840 there's a facts machine in every single room in the house. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.720 And when you given the closet, and when you get 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.880 that and when you get fired, it prints to all 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.280 of them. Well, I think that that boss was just 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.200 not a nice person, but but yeah, it was. Yeah, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.560 the fact that there was a fact was really pretty 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.760 amusing because again, the facts is one of those pieces 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.720 of technology that has largely been supplanted by digital tech, 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.640 you know, stuff digital displays and and PDFs, that sort 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.440 of thing. We still see facts is. I mean, there 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:11.119 are different companies and specifically government organizations that require you 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.280 to facts in documents as opposed to scanning an email. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.000 I have facts to shocking number of documents in the 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.640 past year or so, like a shocking number, and by 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.640 that I mean like more than three. But that's stuff. Yeah, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.880 considering that we're living in an era where you could 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.960 literally take a picture of it with my phone and 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.960 text to somewhere. They're also depending upon the depending upon 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.879 the document you're talking about. If you already have it 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.240 in digital format, there are a ton of programs that 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:42.000 already automatically convert that into PDF format, and then you 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.760 could send it as a PDF where you don't have 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.440 to worry about people making changes to it. And yeah, 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.119 it's just weird to have a world where that facts 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.480 is considered still a viable and necessary piece of technology. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:58.080 According to nineteen nine, that was incredibly incredibly important, yea, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.200 so important that you needed to have like the aready 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.920 have them in your Yes? Yeah, I guess if I 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.480 ever ran low on toilet paper, you know, pretty handy. Well, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.479 I found it was massively wasteful as printing multiple copies 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.160 the same message, not even different messages to different rooms. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.600 You're going to crush a man in his dreams, you 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.639 need to really go all out. Yeah. Well, speaking of crushing, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.000 are there any good crushing or you know, really any 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.280 kind of robots in the home of Back to the 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:33.239 Future Part two? Well, there there was. It wasn't It 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:38.360 wasn't pictured directly, but there was definitely. Um these these 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:43.639 like trash bag sized blocks of trash kind of hanging 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.800 out around a local dumpster. So I thought that that 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.680 was interesting because it implies that within every home there's 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.720 probably some kind of like large scale trash compactor, right 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.320 that you're using to create these bundles of trash. Why 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.919 on earth would you need that unless you're generating ridicu 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.600 hellosus amounts of trash. Because they were generating ridiculous amounts 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.800 of trash, that's true. Yeah, the fax machine prints out 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.560 a duplicate of every single message in every room of 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.439 the house. You're probably creating like three pounds of paper 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.040 waste every hour probably Yeah. Um, there were also roving 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.680 around the city, these robotic trash cans, these kind of 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.480 like our two D two looking things. Yeah, that would 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.720 kind of just willy nilly sort of sort of rove 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.560 around waiting to accept your refuse and we've you know, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.320 there's a great example of this as a concept. It 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.560 was actually used in a in a commercial. It wasn't 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.120 meant to be like an actual product. It was more 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.679 of a gimmick for a TV commercial. A robotic trash 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:45.280 can that used a robotic chassis with wheels at three 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.919 wheels that could spin kind of like casters on a 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.000 on a on a chair. They could spin into any direction, 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.720 so it could the robot could quickly maneuver in any 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.840 given direction at a moment's notice. Uh, moved really really fast. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:02.720 On top of that chassis was mounted a trash can 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.920 like a regular little waste paper beIN so that it 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.359 had just enough clearance from the floor so it wouldn't 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:12.360 scrape around and the wheels could turn freely. And then 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.399 it was had a processor in it that was connected 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:20.680 wirelessly to a connect sensor, a Microsoft Connect sensor, and 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.760 the way it worked was that if you tossed a 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.720 piece of paper, the connect sensor would detect, it would 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:29.280 project out the pathway of that piece of paper, send 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.479 a command to the robot to intercept that piece of paper. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.240 The robot would move into place and then catch it 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:37.720 as it hit before it could hit the ground. And 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.640 it was used in this commercial just as a little 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.640 gimmick where someone is typing on a typewriter, which already 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:48.040