Emily Lakdawalla has her monthly post on the state of space exploration up once again and as always it’s an useful reminder that despite appearances, we are living in the future. One clue being sentences like ” I’m enjoying following the relatively active Twitter feed of Voyager 2, which also mentions the position of Voyager 1 once a day”. Who would’ve guessed in the dying days of the twentieth century that a decade later we would get status updates from a robot space explorer at the edge of our Solar System, through a medium usually portrayed as only being good for shallow gossip or self promotion?
It makes silly little arguments that the future died in 1998 because that’s when Disneyland embraced steampunk seem even more facile than they already were.