Question about 2015

[hummingwolf]

[Edit: Many thanks to rialian and musesfool, both of whom answered this question on Dreamwidth. Guess I need to re-watch the Back to the Future trilogy this year.]

What is it about 2015, anyway? Why does that particular number on the calendar seem to be triggering a massive wave of "We're living in the future now"? I could understand it in 2000, when all the numbers were changing all at once and we were somehow in or almost in a brand-new millennium, and I understood it in 2001 (a Space Odyssey!) even though I'd been conversing with HAL for a couple of years by that point. And I'll certainly understand it in 2020, which sounds more like what I want my vision corrected to than it sounds like an actual year. But for some reason, 2015 has got all the Gen Xers and Baby Boomers I know asking "What year did you say this is again?!" Why is that? Is it some pop-cultural thing stuck in everybody's consciousness but mine? Or is there something else, some deep numerological significance of which I've been blissfully unaware?

Comments

[rialian]

===I believe it is a Back to the Future reference..

[hummingwolf]

Thank you! That explains so much.

[musesfool]

It's a Back to the Future reference.

[hummingwolf]

Thank you! That explains so much.

[cowboybud.livejournal.com]

It's the year from Back to the Future.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

As I said in my edit to the post, I should re-watch that trilogy this year! I have seen the movies, but we were renting them on VHS and the details are fuzzy by now.