The year 2050 is now just as far away as the year 2000

And we still don’t have cool futuristic sci-if shit like flying cars. That sucks.

ONLY THING SHOCKING IS HOW FUCKING AWESOME I STILL AM.😎

Lets all meet up in the year 2000
.... and 50

We are literally living in Sci-Fi future, and we are still not seeing any of the cool things portrayed in the movies, around this time period.

Where's my flying police car, man ? lol. Referencing Blade Runner, of course.

I do remember when I grew up thinking, the year 2000 is so far away, who knows whether I will live to see it.
It's still 12 years to go until I have seen as much of the 21st century as I've seen of the 20th, but as one gets older time seems to run faster and faster.
2050 is another 13 years later, but by now I'm more confident I'll live to see it, than I was about the year 2000.

What always strikes me as a western European is the fact that I'm living in the best of times and the best location humanity has had so far.
It's the first time in history that a whole continent has an entire generation living their whole lives without war.
It's the first generation in history where modern medicine has basically eliminated dental problems (as long as you can pay for it).
My granpa turned blind at old age due to cataract, nowadays that's a miniature surgery and afterwards you don't even need glasses anymore.
My father had surgery at his spine due to a herniated disc, nowadays they give you a few cortisone injections for two weeks or so and you're fine.
Not sure for how long all of this will keep going, but I'm not complaining to be part of it.

What's shocking is that by 2050 many millions of people will sympathize with the Austrian painter.

I still find it crazy that we are now living an entire century after the Jazz Age. Or that "a century ago" doesn't mean 1800s anymore.