Listening to: Transcendental Object At The End Of Time - Epsilon Blue

I have often spent time wondering about the weird disconnected feeling I have now that I have passed the year 2000… and how that imaginary barrier hasn’t been pushed out to another date. Danny Hillis sums it up well:

It was very surprising to me, getting to the future, that nobody was all that interested. Things just started to happen so fast, we were overwhelmed. With the microchip, we stopped being able to imagine the future — we had so much trouble handling what was being brought out in the present.

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