A friend has said the future of the future is the 
present. If you really are curious about the future, 
just study the present. Because what we ordinarily 
see in any present is really what appears in the 
rearview mirror. What we ordinarily think of as 
present is really the past. Modern suburbia lives in 
Bonanza land. It looks back nostalgically and 
sentimentally to the frontier as a kind of safe, and 
at the same time, admirable and desirable world.