The future has arrived – but I'm not sure that I like it very much

Blaise Tapp's view on life in the UK today

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As a child growing up in the '80s, I was exposed to more than my fair share of science fiction and predictions of what the future might look like.

We're now a decade beyond 2015, when Back to the Future II was set, and we're yet to see hoverboards or self-fastening trainers, not that anyone back then seriously expected anything like that to happen, especially when 'cutting edge' technology of the day consisted of computers which took about 25 minutes to load up a cassette or the much derided Sinclair C5-a battery powered tricycle.