I like his thought about the capital-F future only really being present in the minds of people of a certain age/cultural background, and the alternative being a

I like his thought about the capital-F future only really being present in the minds of people of a certain age/cultural background, and the alternative being a kind of endless digital Now, but I don't know that I completely buy it. The digital Now, as a concept seems as if it needs some kind of thinking comprehension as a state. An inward recognition that as he puts it "the future is always someone else's past". But I don't see that when I look around me. I don't see a society filled with people conscious of what's around them, I see one filled largely with sleepwalkers. Where ground-breaking technological marvels are not accepted as part of a capital-N Now, but simply ignored, or never apprehended. I don't know, but I fear that the end of the Futurist is more to do with the end of the Presentist - you can't consider the future without the springboard of the present, and current culture seems to be too numbing for most people to have the will, or need, to do so. Well, that came out much more grumpy than I'd thought.