Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction.
It's a good post and it reminds me a little bit of those old tv commercials from Qwest and AT&T about how you'll be able to "watch any movie ever made in any language" in a dumpy roadside motel or 'send a fax from the beach' that were run in the 1990s.<p>But that's not really science fiction to me. That's just iterative and incremental improvements on a global network.<p>There's not a whole helluva lot functionally different between Windows 3.1 and Windows Whatever (in that they're all WiMPs).<p>There's not a whole helluva lot different between a Mac Performa and the iMac I'm using to type this message (drive bay, hard drive, ram, cpu, etc. Similar designs and similar interfaces).<p>Yeah, Google Maps and GPS are neat but a real "the future is now!" moment to me would be man walking on Mars or being able to fly from LA to Paris in 45 minutes.