Can the Future be Evenly Distributed?

Are there hints of what's generally to come if we look around the edges a bit?

Early in my adult life, I came across the futurist quote from William Gibson: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

And while it’s use has, in the decades since, been heartily overused (and others saying it should stop being used), the mind-blowing concept of “the future” was no longer something out there as though it were the …