What the World Looks Like Now, 100 Years Ago

The lesson against extrapolating into the future is IMO more profound than it at first seems.  We don't know what the new looks like before it arrives, we don't know what today's thinking or perceiving or experiencing will feel or seem or look like from the view of the future, we don't know what our theories---including every definition we now hold for every word we use---will mean from that future place, we don't know even if processes we now observe will continue, or in what manner, or if in any resemblance of the terms we now use to describe those processes, such as they in the future may be called, or not.  If I were to say we are absolutely situated, a saying which implies extrapolation to, among other things, the future, I do not know if that will hold with a little more ticking of that thing we now call a clock.

hey where's my flying car ??

Talk about lower right reigning supreme!  Maybe we have made a little progress from technology uber alles.