The Future Has Arrived, And It's A Little Late

I saw that the first Apple computer could sell for as much as half a million dollars. Bids for this souvenir from 1976 will start at three hundred thousand dollars, but auctioneers at Christie's don't expect it to stay there long. This is, after all, the beginning of a new age, the product of the fevered imaginations of college dropouts Steves Wozniak and Jobs. It will no longer be sitting in a cardboard box, cluttering up the basement of a retired school psychologist in Sacramento, California. Someone will, no doubt, find a special place in their home, or a museum somewhere for this piece of our future.
In the meantime, what used to look like the future is slated for demolition. The Delta Terminal at JFK International Airport is being razed to make room for a newer version. The flying saucer-shaped building that was once home to Pan Am, back when Pan Am was a vision of things to come, but that was way back in 2001. Or 1968. Einstein would tell us it's all relative, right? We've got the space station, but it doesn't have a Howard Johnson's on board. Even if you have to watch an episode of Mad Men to see their bright orange roofs, HoJo's still exist.
Speaking of roofs, another bit of retro-future, the Astrodome is on the same bubble as the Delta Terminal. What was once state-of-the-art is now moldy and out-dated. Baseball indoors? You're talking crazy. It's been a long time since the Bad News Bears made their trek to Houston in order to prove to the world just how good they could be without Tatum O'Neal or Walter Matthau. Baseball has survived, anyway.
So, as it turns out, the future looks a lot like the past, only not nearly as cool. So go ahead and pay half a million dollars for that clump of circuits soldered onto a piece of plywood. Just make sure you've got room in your hovercar port to store it.