Oh, it was so futuristic! I was young and easily impressed. It was the last time for me that the present felt like a prelude to the future. A few years later an

Oh, it was so futuristic! I was young and easily impressed. It was the last time for me that the present felt like a prelude to the future. A few years later and the progress of time meant little more than a constant dribble of new codepoints getting added to the emoji set.