The present doesn't resemble the predictions of a 30-year-old movie, ergo we've failed. USA Today:
Certainly not working on new prissy cliches to replace "I'm looking at you, (fill in the blank)" - that would be the job of writers, but new cliches take time to develop. "Where's my flying car" is another cliche, handy for identifying cranky Boomers or people who are mocking Boomer expectations.
"BTTF 2" - which wasn't a very good movie - got a lot of things wrong. Do you want your media to come on enormous optical disks?

Do you want to wear the double-tie?

Do you want to get messages by wall-mounted fax?

Marty's boss is Japanese, IRRC, and I don't miss all the Pamper-dampening about Japan Inc shouldering America off the world stage.
Because if there's one key piece of evidence that leads today's digital sleuths to the guilty party, it's fingerprints.
Interesting how the author notes the movie's inability to predict the Internet and small portable phones, but moves along as if these innovations aren't as significant or needful as self-lacing sneakers.