Reader Barry Wallack would like to take advantage of the wonder that is FireWire to use another Mac’s hard drive as a local volume. He writes: I am trying to connect two Macs together via a FireWire ...

It's a paradox. Zemeckis went into the future and saw the FireWire symbol, went back to his own time and made the movie using it. Now FireWire is just fulfilling the destiny it always had.