So the future will be...
... very silvery and full of rich white people with 70s haircuts?
Actually that is how I imagined the future to be when I was young, before
the stark, depressing gothic mythic was impunged upon us starting in the
1980s.
A fun place that dissects the good old days view of how the future was
supposed to be can be found here:
http://www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm