Are We There Yet? · Section 14

Next Year in Futurism

The future that is always next year. Neil Armstrong's warning — we predict too much for the next year and too little for the next ten — then the perennial almost-heres: fusion, graphene, flying cars, the space elevator, a cure for cancer. Tesla is its patron saint, describing the smartphone in 1926 and dying broke. Two presidents were overheard discussing living to 150.

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