I'm not sure what "the future is now" means. Interrogating the phrase, it breaks apart a few words, Future and Now. When my daughter asks when a certain event will be held, she doesn't yet comprehend the order of days; Friday might as well be a strange indefinable forever away for her. That's always how I've thought of the word Future too, something that couldn't be pinned down, always receeding, never Now. Now, on the other hand, is far easier to comprehend. We wallow in it, it washes over us…
