Headin for the 90's livin in the wild, wild west...

I listen to the 80's station a lot...that ole synthesizer sound just really gets me.

So I'm sitting there...listening to said station.  And this comes on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0XZx_a7Y8

Its safe if you are allowed to have music play at work :)  Its just The Escape Club's song "Wild, Wild West"

The concept that they were barreling towards the 90's has always sounded so hopeful to me.  Like they knew so many things were in store for the world for that decade.  And indeed it was a crazy decade with tons of things happening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s

But I think to myself that we haven't yet jumped off that ride.  We are STILL transitioning.  We're up to 6 in 10 people having cellphones, cellphones becoming smartphones, smartphones becoming computers that call people.

And everyone is connected all of the time.

Our economy is tanking, tankers are spilling oil, and oil prices are fluctuating.

Nothing is settled.  The reigning rhetoric before November 2008 was so pro Obama you couldn't turn around without hearing great things about him.  Now...not even 2 years later, you can't find people saying good things about the poor guy :(

Things look bad for a lot of reasons, mostly economical and environmental.

BUT...somehow there is still an overall feeling of "great things are coming".

We're moving closer and closer to that Jetson/Star Trek era of teleporters, space travel, and moonbases.

Hovercars (long promised), medical technology, and dome houses are all on their way to our world and the anticipation still has that electric feel to it that we had in the 80's.

I don't know if this has always existed.  It seems like, from comments from older generations, that it didn't exist in the 50's or 40's or before then.  The changes started slowly in the 60's and barreled into a huge avalanche of "New" till now we are reading our books in tiny, slim, pocket puters that hold more than a huge bookshelf can at once.  We are calling people across the coast for almost free.

Its just insane and it struck me that this transition paper is long and huge, and that is probably normal, but since I wasn't there for other transition periods I wouldn't know :)