What’s so funny about this is that when I was a kid in the 1960’s I was a real science fiction buff. I was so excited that the average lifespan of an american would mean I would live into the “21st century” as if on 1/1/2000 some switch would be pulled and we’d be “in the future”.
But I was also depressed because I’d be so old I’d not be able to appreciate it. :-D
We are living in the future
I’ll tell you how I know
I read it in the papers
15 years ago
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with out minds
Wearing turquoise jewelery
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines
- John Prine, Living in the Future
That album came out in 1980, at the end of the Carter Administration, so the “standing in soup lines” imagery is understandable.