We have small handheld devices that we use to keep in touch with virtually everyone on the planet. Using these devices we can talk with someone, send them an text message that travels through the ether to arrive on the other side of the city/county/continent/planet in less than five minutes. We have devices that enable us to talk to someone face to face, even though you are thousands of miles from the other person in your conversation. We have a network infrastructure in place to communicate with each other which is largely used to convey information in massive amounts to whoever has a connection to it. We have paper that changes its ink at the press of a button. We have mapped our very genetic code, and had it copyrighted along the way. Corporations indirectly control the actions of superpowers. We travel at high speeds on wide thoroughfares between megacities. Our vehicles eat up the miles. Every spot on the planet is generally accessible in roughly two days time. You walk to your vehicle, use that vehicle to travel to a flying machine hub, board a flying machine, the flying machine takes you to a similar hub somewhere else in the world, you disembark, board a vehicle much like the one you yourself own, then from there it’s just a matter of knowing where you are going. We are faced with a world filled to the brim with too many people. We have been probing the hard skin of space for decades. We slather our bodies with radiation-blocking salve before we expose ourselves to the rays of the sun.

Isn’t it great living in the future.