Minor Thoughts On An Old Cliche

I wonder, given that its been always been a cliche qoute to say, as this qoute begins with in the future so on and so on.  Do you think that the world we live in today is the future that they've always talked about tend to mention?  "Like are we in the future or like times, generations before us will we be just another past"? " I like to believe that we're in this big giant ball known as time, as it continues to endlessly roll". " I don't believe life itself is fiction, I think its not a dream, I think we all flow down this endless stream".