Has the future arrived?

"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements.

"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.

No, future has not arrived.

The Orwellian aspects certainly seem to be here.

Future will never arrive. It is present always.

Bad news: it is only the present. Always.

:)

> History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology. — Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.