The Future Can Wait

I consistently admire Caveat Lector, and today am struck by the post titled "Not the future," which argues clearly and convincingly that calling something "the wave of the future" often indicates that it does not have to be dealt with now.

It concludes with the ringing phrase, "I am not the future. I am the now."

Yeah! 

This is such a good point; we can't be pushing our handling of data storage and other technical issues off on the future, to be addressed when we get there. We're there. Those issues are here. 

Something is certainly the future, but things we already have right here to hand are the present, and need to be understood and dealt with accordingly.

Embrace the now.