Countless artists, writers and self-proclaimed psychics have predicted how the 21^st century would look like. Some of them even got it right! …Well, slightly right.

WHEN PREDICTIONS COME TRUE

Back to the Future, the 1985 hit film you’ve surely seen or at least heard about, predicted that people would be using hoverboards for transportation by 2015.

Marty McFly riding a hoverboard

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While we don’t really see hoverboard-riding teens at the mall or in the streets today, we do occasionally see people of all ages riding self-balance scooters in public, which of course can be considered a hoverboard prototype.

And if that doesn’t cut it for you, luxury vehicle manufacturer Lexus unveiled this year its very own and the world’s first genuine hoverboard. Watch the product demonstration here. Depending on Lexus’s marketing and distribution strategies, it’s only a matter of time before the thing…