Chasing the Future

I love the future.
I love the optimistic visions of mid century futurism. Green, pristine suburbia with flying cars gracefully through blue skies. Martini parties in wood panelled houses with all kinds of flying saucer-looking technology everywhere. We had the technology and everything was perfect.

The sixties vision is fun too. Clear plastic and bright colors. Furry interior design. Lots of chrome and flying saucer looking accessories.

The seventies gave us amazing LED watches. So utterly futuristic that they STILL completely outshine most modern attempts at futuristic looking watches. It's frustrating scouring the vast universe of the internet and only finding nothing. One could collect these old marvels but they devour batteries at an alarming and obnoxious rate.

Ahh the 80's. Truly the pinnacle of scifi. Although our vision of the future became dark and distopian, There were still so many worlds that we wish we could explore. Neo tokyo - Blade Runner, deep space, moon like battle stations. Cool digital watches, arcades, ET.

The internet brought a whole new twist to ideas that had been brewing for a long time. Scifi became hip and sexy - cyberpunk. All in all the future was getting darker and scarier. Yet we still wanted to be there. The pinnacle of scifi hip: The Matrix. Mind bending and sexy at the same time.

Today we continue to see tomorrows we wish we could explore. Guardians of the Galaxy. Yesterday and tomorrow melded together. The amazing visuals of Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
And we have the technology. Look at our phones, look at our smart watches. We are IN the future.

But we never notice. If we could experience the worlds of the future, would we even realize we're there? Because we are.