Like the book 1984 trying to predict the future is always a crap shoot. Obviously they took a guess as to what the future would look like thinking that it was so far ahead that most of the things would never be looked at for real accuracy. It was a movie not soothsayers predicting what would happen. Funny thing is some science fiction has influenced the future. The original star trek had the auto open doors and we have them today. Something’s we wish we had. Hover boards and time machines would be awesome but everyone going back in time and taking selfies with famous people would give up the secret pretty quick. Somethings could never have been predicted, like buying an almanac? You would just google the results. Besides if he had invested in Apple, HP or Microsoft he would have gotten richer and been able to sustain his income over a long period of time. Building a casino over building office space in some big city where you could charge massive amounts for rent. Casinos are losing money these days. It is fun today to look back and see what we thought the future would look like. Too bad we don’t have the time machine to go back and change some of the not so bright things we have done since the movie came out. Unfortunately we are stuck with our choices!