I remember, not that long ago, a time when I thought about what the future might bring. Not in my own specific future, but the future of society in general. I remember watching TV shows like Star Trek—seeing the technology they had available on the show—and thinking to myself, “Wow, that would be cool to have that kind of thing available today”: touchscreen computers, voice recognition software, video conferencing, and communication devices you can carry around with you wherever you go. Now I wake up and think, “Wait, we’re already there: someday is actually now”.
The crazy part is that it was barely 20 years ago when I was thinking about this. These things had a place in my mind that was so far removed that it wasn’t even tangible to me. What was science fiction then might as well have been fiction to me. But now science fiction (or fiction, even) has become our reality. And already these things are so integrated into our society that we don’t even give them as second thought. I can call my parents who live 1300 miles away and now have the opportunity to video chat with them from virtually anywhere. I can give voice commands to my computer rather than type everything in. And, of course, everyone knows about touchscreens now. They’re as ubiquitous as print newspapers were 20 years ago. (Speaking of which, they may soon be relegated to the ash heap of history like a pile of dinosaur relics. But at least you’ll always have the online option.) Also, with checkout kiosks, I can forgo even having to deal with a cashier and opt for a more impersonal route at many retail stores. (Particularly handy if I’m feeling especially grumpy that day, I guess.)
How did these things change so fast? And how did we get here without even realizing it? Well, a universal truth in life is that things change faster than we think they will; time goes by faster than we think it will; and what wasn’t that long ago in reality seems like so long ago in perception. We watch the days go by in real time without realizing the speed at which they go by. It’s been said that ‘the only constant in life is change’. It’s an irony of life that change is one of the few things we can rely on never changing. Life is saying, “Oh, you want something you can always expect? Here you go: change.” And it leaves us thinking, “Wait, that’s not what I had in mind.”
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Realizing the speed at which the future has snuck up on me, it makes me more mindful of where I am today. It makes me project less into my future and inject more of it into the now. It also makes me realize that I now have a considerable amount of my future in the past, with less of it yet to come. It makes me see that the best time to plan isn’t down the road…..but right now.