It's striking that most of his true predictions were already in place in the sixties, a mere 40 years after the article was written (and some, much earlier). When we think about the distant future we simply think about tomorrow.
I think it's very easy to dismiss the creeping surge of the future...You have computers EVERYWHERE, and with the Cloud - somewhere else...but you also have access to a significant percentage of the music recorded over the last 80 years, the ability to predict future health issues by sending some spit to someone via the mail, the internet from SPACE, and a supply chain where it's easier to make a $.62 knicknack half a world away, put it in a container on a boat and it can be requested and sent to you same day, using your cellphone....while it wirelessly sends that music to your ears using devices that remove unwanted environmental noise.
With time, I started to interpret this quote differently. It's not that one place is more in future than another; it's that even different parts of the future are unevenly distributed among the globe. Now, more than ever, different countries sometimes seem very advanced in some ways but at the same time backwards in others.
