"Do we finally get flying cars and intermingling of species or is it still pulp fiction like so much from my youth still is?" So many advances, but not nearly as many as they imagined and wrote about.

"I have. Two lifetimes in time and in the man I've been," he admits, nodding. "Terrans earth, right? I like that. Some still from there manage it, just through probably less scientific means than most would think. In my case, a curse."