Although 2015 is only a few days old and is new to most of us, fans of one particular 1989 flick have been here before — kind of.

“Back to the Future”, made in 1985, and “Back to the Future 2,” made in 1989, are ‘80s classics about a teen named Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, who travels through time thanks to the time-machine DeLorean created by Doc Brown, Christopher Lloyd. In the original film, McFly travels to the ‘50s, a decade which already happened, so they knew all the details about the time. However in the sequel, McFly time travels in the opposite direction and lands himself in a time we all now know: 2015.

Upon a recent viewing of the film, I noticed some things that have actually been developed since the film came out in theaters, like video conferencing, flat screen TV’s, fingerprint identification technology, drones and 3D technology. After compiling a list of all these technological advancements, I noticed that basically all the things depicted as futuristic in the film have been in existence and have been developed further. We have video conferencing and fingerprint technology on our phones, 3D has become expected —with just about every film these days coming out in 3D— and Amazon has started delivering packages with drones.

In a lot of ways we are ahead of where this film guessed we would be by now with the exception of the things in the movie that we don’t have— and I think for good reason. For example, hover boards. Can you imagine those things flying around campus? The number of skateboards and longboards are bad enough. Self-lacing shoes? If we had these I would label them a waste of technology for sure. Let’s cure cancer first. Flying cars? Flying road-rage? I’ll pass. And fax machines and telephone booths? They’re obsolete. For whatever reason, the movie frequently shows people using fax machines and telephone booths in 2015, which I find hilarious since they are so out of date that almost anyone walking around campus today has probably never used them.

All of this being said, based upon this particular guesstimate of what 2015 would look like, I think we are ahead of the game. Of course, who knows what the year will bring, due to the fact that 2015 is still in its infancy, but from a technological stand point, I think we are ahead of the future.