Last night, I was watching Tiger King on a 42-inch bezel-less HD TV. Tiger King is streamed on Netflix, which means no scheduled time and no need to record via TiVo. We don’t even have cable. Meanwhile, Shivantika was watching another on-demand TV show on her 12 inch iPad, listening through wireless AirPods. 10 years ago, this reality wouldn’t have been imaginable. It would be the stuff of Sci-Fi. Something that could only exist in a future world in 2020.
Well it’s 2020. And that future is here. We live in it every day and while some fantasies didn’t come to be (flying cars, anyone?), there is so much that we could not have even guessed. This was meant to be the future where we never had to worry about a thing.
But that’s obviously not true. We’ve made so much progress—we’re pretty much living in a dream. But we don’t seem to be happier.