I understand. I believe there is quite a lot of evidence that there are genuinely new ideas emerging today—especially around computation, networks, health, and sheer scale—many of which couldn’t have existed in mid-20th-century science fiction.

But many of our deepest visions of the future were first imagined decades and even centuries ago through science fiction, art, and mythology long before the technology to realize them existed.

Old ideas that we’re still bringing to fruition.

We’re not done imagining the future—we’re still in the middle of realizing it. AI, space exploration, man vs. machine aren’t “stale” ideas; they’re the next chapter of humanity’s shared mythology that is only now coming to fruition.