97. The Future is Now?

Published: April 11, 2019, 9:07 a.m.

b"\\u201cThere are two ways to say \\u2018The future is now\\u2019: you can say it optimistically, like, \\u2018The future is now! Isn't that cool?\\u2019 Or you could be like, \\u2018The future is now, and we're totally screwed.\\u2019\\u201d Rose Eveleth, of the future-envisioning podcast Flash Forward, tracks the past and present of one of her favourite phrases."