# If "Back to The Future" were a thing today, what would be the contrast?

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**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-back-to-the-future-were-a-thing-today-what-would-be-the-contrast/954240 "2021-11-12T11:56:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-back-to-the-future-were-a-thing-today-what-would-be-the-contrast/954240/71 "2021-11-14T04:49:55Z")

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And two other tangential threads about time traveling to the 80s with a modern cellphone:

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-1980s-reverse-engineer-a-modern-iphone/775816](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-1980s-reverse-engineer-a-modern-iphone/775816)

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-a-time-traveler-pawn-his-cell-phone-off-too/427879](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-a-time-traveler-pawn-his-cell-phone-off-too/427879)

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