Hey everybody, this is a special bonus edition of Imaginary Worlds this week, which had come out today

October 21st, 2015, because as we all know today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future.

And if you've been on the internet today, I'm sure you've probably seen a lot of these articles,

which are basically the gist of it is we were promised flying cars and we got Twitter. What the hell?

And you know, it's funny I actually did a story about flying cars a couple of years ago and they

do kind of exist like people are actually trying to make them. Same with hoverboards. I mean,

there's a lot of videos of people who claim to have actually made real hoverboards.

This is real bugs. This is the real hoverboard right here.

The new images just released by Lexus of a skateboarder floating several inches above the pavement,

above the ramp. But they are still very, very much in prototype. 3D movies definitely better than

they used to be, but you know, there's not like a giant hologram shark that can leap over a marquee.

Whoa, Doc, we're really here in the future. Huh, looks different from how I imagined it.

In fact, this sort of sense of disappointment has been going on so long that the website

college humor produced this cartoon. You gotta fit in, Marty. Quick, put these on. Oh, rad, I bet they're

like futuristic self-lacing sneakers, right, Doc? No, they're called Crocs.

And Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox film these commercials for Toyota.

We've got three hate movies. We had a fingerprint technology.

Uh, those self-timed sneakers.

One might feel those.

They're also all these counter arguments like there was an article in the New York Times last weekend

that argued, no, no, you know, if you squint and look hard enough, we did end up in the 2015

they predicted. Because, you know, if you look at Hill Valley in that world, there's been this

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