0006 - The Future - 2017.11.13 |
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Comment: From 2000 onwards, there's been a tendency for people to say we're "living in the future". I think that's largely due to the science fiction of the preceding century establishing dates beginning with 2 as being futuristic. You hear it all the time, don't you? Some new smartphone function or drone or social innovation challenges the status quo, and people say "wow, the future is weird" or "what an [amazing/awful] future we live in". It's basically just another way of saying "the world in which I grew up, and learned to think of as normal, is very quickly going away, and won't ever come back". I assume the phrase, if not the idea behind it, will gradually phase out as the people raised on 1900's sci fi age out of the population. That's the real future, of course. That's what's really scary and different about it. You won't be there. |
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