Did you think the future would be cooler? ——— I honestly don't remember how I thought the future would be. I have no idea. I guess when thinking about the future when I was young I only thought about things I would be doing. Jobs I might have, etc. I don't remember if I thought we'd have flying cars by now.. One thing that's cooler about the present than I ever anticipated is the power of CPUs, RAM, storage mediums, etc. I'm pretty sure your average cell phone is thousands of times more powerful than the most powerful computers when I was a kid. And the internet nobody ever would have foreseen either. The sum total of human knowledge at your fingertips!