The 'Net is a waste of time.
The present tense made him nervous.
I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.
I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.