Wannabe Wired: When will we feel like we're living in the future?

The golden age of science fiction predicted a world filled with flying cars, mega-cities gleaming with neon where the streets are unseen and robots walking freely among the populace. The 21st century was going to be an age of technological miracles, but what do you see when you look out your window? As Einstein would say, it's all relative. You don't feel like you're living in the future for the same reason that anyone born in the 90s doesn't feel like it's been over 20 years since the 90s ended. It's difficult for us to feel like we're living in the future because we're only ever living in the present, but if we take a moment to step back and take a deeper, more complex look at the world around us it becomes quite clear that the world we are living in is full of what would have been considered futuristic 50 years ago.