Maybe the present isn't always what we wish it was, but let's remember: to people in the old days, you and I are living in the glorious future! This means, of course, that I am writing this from my house on the moon and my computer is a big silver box with lots of blinky, multi-colored lights on it. Later I will fly my car to the store to buy food pills...
Okay, maybe not...but it's still amusing to observe from our vantage point in the future, what our forebears thought we'd be doing. For example...in a 1939 booklet entitled "World of Tomorrow Miracles with Minute Tapoica," General foods corp. imagined our lives to be touched by the magic of Tapioca:
Hear me, citizens of the past! I come from the future with a message: Nobody in the future is touching a boiled ham and cabbage casserole with a ten foot pole...even if it is "Top Hat."
