Ah, the future. Until recently, typical futuristic scenarios in pop culture and art were ubiquitous and involved human-like robots serving us tea and then turning on us and wreaking murderous havoc, or intergalactic war-torn cities, or cars flying among the tops of skyscrapers. Since the early part of this decade, society's obsession with the future seems to have died down, as the current political landscape, state of perpetual war and economic fluctuations imbue the present with far too much immediate consequence to think about how our leisure time, work life, etc. may look a century or two down the line. Humans are thinking squarely about "us" and "now."
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