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The Elon Musks of the world might want us to believe that Starlink is the true wave of the future, but satellites are slower and considerably more expensive, and most experts say that we will be using underwater cable systems for at least the next three decades.

This is just one of innumerous examples of how synthetics are the wave of the future: anyone cyber-savvy enough can acquire the equipment and ingredients, which are easier to hide and can better withstand the local weather than a coca crop or a poppy plantation, effectively democratizing the drug trade away from Mafia-esque syndicates.

In 1940, his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, published a pamphlet entitled ”The Wave of the Future: A Confession of Faith,” which quickly became a best-seller with the America First crowd.

She also wrote that totalitarianism might have a few rough edges, but it was an inevitable wave of the future, to which Americans should submit.

“When I got out of the service I was convinced that helicopters were the wave of the future and that everybody was going to have one in their garage,” he said in a 2002 oral history for Harvard Business School.