“. . . I mean, we’re livin’ in the future, baby!”
“The future? Pffhaahaha.”
“No really—we’re all, like, colonizing Mars, an’ we cure most cancers—and a gay president just got elected! We have to be in the future!”
“I mean yeah, but we don’t have, like, flying cars or warp drives or any of the really transformative stuff! And it still takes, like, three hours to circle the globe. Like, come on.”
“We have . . . uh, human-level AIs and fusion power?”
“But that’s just, like, normal stuff. Everyone knows it isn’t really that hard to do.”
“I guess you’re right. Well, can’t wait until the future, then!”