The Future Is Now.
Just a quick statement of the obvious, brought to you by an iced coffee a little too late in the evening:
We live in a world where, if we so desire, we can get up-to-the-minute Olympics coverage from Samuel L. Jackson, breaking news from The Iron Sheik and 24 hour a day live news video coverage from just about anyone, anywhere.
Jet packs and flying cars are real. They aren’t widely commercially available…yet. They will be soon enough, though, as will 3-D printers that we can make virtually anything with, including, for better or worse, firearms.
Most of us carry around some manner of Star Trek shit or another like it’s no big deal. It is a big deal. It’s going to sound trite, but I’ve owned an iPad for almost a year, and I’m still not jaded yet.
Yes, the 20th century is having one violent motherfucker of a death rattle and trying like hell to take the 21st with it, but it’s not going to work.
It never works.
We are going to win.
It’s just going to take a little more imagination and some hard work.
Keep at it, world. We’re almost there.
July 30th, 2012 at 1:33 am
Nailed it. I wish I could tell my teenaged self that in The Future I will make a video that thousands of people will watch, that my articles about baseball cards will be published, Dick Perez will ask to be my friend, and that I am able to give money to John Krisfalusi to make a new cartoon and that I’ll regularly interact with people from all over the world. Young me would probably soil my shorts with joy.
I’ll leave out the bits about YouTube, Blogger, Facebook, Kickstarter and Twitter/Reddit. I wouldn’t understand all that stuff anyway.
I might tell myself about 4chan if I’m in a particularly mischievous mood however…