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nwrkonOct 6, 2016

Joining you. Saw some potential concept here [1]

[1] Back to the future (1985) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/

csoursonSep 19, 2020

See also Science Fiction Theater. Here's the episode that played the night of the "Enchantment Under the Sea" dance that George McFly would have seen in Back to the Future:

The Hastings Secret
https://archive.org/details/ScienceFictionTheatre1956TheOthe...

travisgriggsonJuly 20, 2021

Back to the Future, Dan Ingalls and others [http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html]

Homesteading the Noosphere, Eric Raymond [http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/]

jh3onAug 20, 2015

I remember reading Timeline and Prey in high school. They were amazing books to me at the time. I just couldn't put them down. I never cared too much about how scientifically accurate they were though. That's like complaining about the plot holes in Back to the Future. It's entertainment, so to me he did his job well.

jxramosonMay 10, 2021

I had the opposite reaction too. One weekend an old friend was watching Back to the Future in High Def. It took away from the experience, it was like watching a play the resolution was so sharp. I couldn't enter into the fiction of the story any longer, it prevented the suspension of disbelief because it was so realistic. I think that grainier lower quality medium facilitated the imagination somehow, much like reading a book does.
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