What Todd Rundgren is trying to get across in this song is man's portrayal of the future, and the reality of the future. "I remember the world of tomorrow". What almost seems like a paradox is pretty practical, considering that ever since the mid-20th century man has had many visions of what the future could look like. The narrator is remembering all of these visions, seeing that if they were true, then he would have a flying car, a house on mars, have a longer life expectancy, etc. With the lines, "The future is now", Rundgren is indicating that the same time period that people said was going to an age of flying cars and homes on Mars, is the present today. All the songs on this album are dedicated to exposing the truth, and seeing things as they really are. This song in particular copes with the reality of this so called future, which is nothing like the World's Fair or even EPCOT could have imagined.
What Todd Rundgren is trying to get across in this song is man's portrayal of the future, and the reality of the future. "I remember the world of tomorrow". What almost seems like a paradox is pretty practical, considering that ever since the mid-20th century man has had many visions of what the future could look like. The narrator is remembering all of these visions, seeing that if they were true, then he would have a flying car, a house on mars, have a longer life expectancy, etc. With the lines, "The future is now", Rundgren is indicating that the same time period that people said was going to an age of flying cars and homes on Mars, is the present today. All the songs on this album are dedicated to exposing the truth, and seeing things as they really are. This song in particular copes with the reality of this so called future, which is nothing like the World's Fair or even EPCOT could have imagined.