Head-down all the way ...

There are those who ask "Where is my flying car" when told we are living in an age of wonders. There are those who trivialize the impact of laser-guided flies and superpowered babies; they bury their heads and wait to be impressed.

They are not wrong. What they are is behind.

Here's the secret: we will always be blase about the future. How else to react? By definition, the future is faster than us, constantly accelerating away like a De Sitter horizon. It can either be ignored, feared, raged against or accepted; a lot like another inevitable fate really. Wonders are always in the past: apple to the head, e is equal to MC squared, didaliensbuildthepyramids? The future? That's yesterminute's news, man.

This is what we know:

In the future, things will be good

- an autofabricator in every home

- eat burgers on the moon

- all markets will be niche markets.



Here is what else we know:

In the future, things will be bad:

- an autofabricator in every home

- eat burgers on the moon

- all markets will be niche markets.


That is all.