The future, it turns out, looks a lot like the nineties. Do you remember those old television programs, the ones highlighting D-list celebrities, fashion mistakes? Cataloging fads like fades? Neons and novelty songs and 2-D video games? This is a future bereft of all such bright trappings. Think instead clumsy car phones, gray pleated pants, office parks and corporate-ladder climbing. Think overtime and pagers. Think shared custody. Think children’s breakfast cereal, eaten alone, in the dark.
