living the future

where the fuck is my jetpack?!

andre breton said that the simplest surrealist act is to walk down the street with a pistol & firing randomly into the crowd

who'd have guessed that the currency of our civilization is not the spice melange but information 

he or she who controls the information controls the universe

we live in the first globalized civilization connected by trade by smart phones by the internet

we can hear the wind on mars see the oldest galaxies

when futurists imagined the future they saw spinners those flying cars in the blade runner films & artificial people that looked sounded & behaved like people

what the futurists didn't see is the same gritty landscape populated with people holding a tiny computer at the end of the arms or AI systems that sound like human speech

even at the end of the world we must go to work pay the bills pay our taxes

the worst of human culture[s] is at our fingertips so is the best

would breton be horrified to see our country so surrealist now

guns as common as apples in our homes 

the future arrived with its gifts & with its horror

but no jetpack