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Excuse me while I get existential for a moment.
It might not feel like it in the day by day, but we’re constantly creeping towards an unknown future and away from a fading past.
Take, for example, the year 1986.
Back to the Future had come out a year prior, leaving everyone thinking on what the future might hold. It was a year of unmitigated disaster (Chernobyl and Challenger), and of hopeful beginnings (Microsoft went public, Mischa Barton was born). Halley’s Comet completed the end of its 76-year voyage, and immediately started another lap.
A few redditors put their heads together over what someone from 1986 would consider outrageous about our day to day life here in 2026, and it really does make you realize we truly are living in the future.
Whether that’s a good thing or not is another question entirely.
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