Have you ever watched a futuristic movie that was made 30 or 40 years ago? In the movie, there will be things that you can tell were not real possibilities at the time. Watches that functioned as computers or ways to communicate with people from a small earpiece. Cars that would drive themselves. Entirely online shopping and living, etc.
There are an equal amount of movies that show “futuristic scenes that look nothing like the reality now. Because people had no idea. Maybe they thought by now we would have cars that fly (well, we do have that, but it’s not a common place thing to see that).
It’s an interesting thing to live life in real time because similarly to growing up with a younger sibling, you realize that they’re growing taller, but you don’t have quite the shock that maybe an Aunt or Uncle do only seeing this child once every year or two. The child grows so much and they look so different when you don’t see them for a year.
For us, when we’re living in the midst of the technology age, we don’t see the giant leaps in technology as much because it’s a fluid stream. When one cool piece of technology comes out, it seems to be topped not long after by something even greater.
We are constantly surrounded by new technology and we are absorbed into it. If you went and spent 10 years in a third world country and came back to civilization in the states, I can’t even imagine how far behind you would be.
Reality seems to constantly be catching up to science fiction, and it’s catching up faster and faster. Don’t blink or you might miss it.