We don’t have flying cars yet. We’re not taking vacations in low-Earth orbit. Our computers aren’t talking to us in soothing conversational tones. But brace yourselves, because the forces of progress are going to change our lives in dramatic ways. Imagine…being able to rent movies…on your computer. Imagine…being able to purchase digital music…that will play on any device. Imagine…being able to download things…really, really fast. Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
I understand that the future will come in a series of shuffling, incremental steps rather than a heady rush. A decade from now, I might marvel at how we ever put up with [insert today’s cutting-edge but inevitably kludgy and obsolete technology here] for so long. But until I get to have sex with robots, everything else is underwhelming hype.
