SNEAK-PEEK: The Back to the Future Lexicon

by Rich Handley

Here's another preview of A Matter of Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon (see the previous sneak peek here), coming Thanksgiving week from Hasslein Books.

Image courtesy of Futurepedia

vidphone: A 21st-century telephony innovation consisting of a large, wall-mounted screen enabling individuals to communicate over distances via video and audio. Marty and Jennifer McFly had a vidphone in their den in 2015, which doubled as a television capable of simultaneously showing multiple channels.

NOTE: In essence, the writers of Back to the Future II accurately predicted not only wall-mounted large-screen televisions, but also voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services and instant-messaging clients, such as Skype and ooVoo, as well as the integration of computers, phone service and television.