Can we just agree on this?

We are living in the future I could have imagined as a child. Sure, we don’t have flying cars and haven’t colonized mars, or met aliens, or really have a set basis for space travel.

But you know what do have? Vehicles that are not humanly operated, virtual reality, 3D printing, small form jet packs, and plenty of other futuristic inventions. Quite honestly, I fully believe we are living in -the- future. Although it’s not quite the Jetsons lifestyle, we are certainly far more advanced that I could have imagined as a child.

Think about being born in the 30’s. The dust bowl, the depression, if you will. Think about what kind of childhood you would have had growing up at that time? Toys were still metal and wood; computers weren’t a thing until 1936, at least, not the way we see them today. Technology has advanced in one “life span” from a computer with very limited computing power, which took up the size of a room, into everyone is carrying something thousands of times over the speed and power in their pocket.

People born in the 30s have seen some of the most significant and amazing advances (arguably) that humans have ever really made. If you grew up in the dust bowl and depression era, you couldn’t imagine in 2019 the kind of crazy things we have now. If that isn’t the future for you, I don’t think we’ll ever achieve your futuristic vision.

Growing up in the 90’s myself, the things I thought were amazing technology in my childhood are: Cybiko, Nintendo Entertainment System, Digital cameras, Rechargable batteries, and real personal computers. Sure, some form of those things probably existed for years before I was introduced to them. However, once a technology makes its way to a general population, I believe that makes it a bigger advancement than something that is unfathomably expensive and hard to reproduce. It means that it’s a technology that has been refined enough to make it cheap enough to get into consumers had. It has matured to a level that the public can tangibly and mentally grasp.

Honestly, I may have been gifted as a child, as I was introduced to computers and video games and tech in general, probably earlier than most children. I was playing NES at 4 or 5, my brother and I were given a PC around the age of 6-8, and my parents did a very good job making sure that we were on the “bleeding edge” of many new emerging technologies.

Still, in my life time, looking back to what kind of power computers and cell phones (bag phone) had at the time, compared to now. This is the future, and if you don’t see it, you are overestimating what the future actually is.