The future is past, says the chorus of a song by the group Trending Tropics, and as we enter a new decade, they seem to be right. The future that we now envision is radically different from that of just a few decades ago.

Our political certainties are diluted from meme to meme, our dystopias are climatic, and indolently we see all the prequels on the news. While we can distinguish the replicants by making them point out traffic lights or zebra…