Unevenly Distributed

There was a sentence in a PJ O’Rourke book. I can’t remember which book, and I can’t quote the sentence exactly, but it was something like “The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

The fact is the future/progress/innovation is always unevenly distributed.

It’s only in books and movies that you get a new thing and everyone adopts it or starts using it, everywhere at once. That has never happened, ever.

And it’s not just a being able to afford it, or even a matter of being...