The Future Is Here ...and it's rubbish

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Here we are in 2009, with no monoliths, no flying cars, teleporters or large scale alien invasions.
No wonder we're all in this strange state of melancholy for the future.

Recommended reading:

Doktor Sleepless by Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez.
www.doktorsleepless.com
"Where's my jetpack?"
One of the few comics genuinely worth reading at the moment.

Welcome To Mars by Ken Hollings
www.strangeattractor.co.uk
An insisive and intriguing guide to the future that never was, as we once thought it might be, and how people might have trouble smoking cigarettes in space.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
www.cormacmccarthy.com
Bleak but beautiful tale of two nameless characters struggling to survive in a dead future, time and place unknown.

Dancers At The End Of Time Trilogy by Michael Moorcock
www.multiverse.org
Brilliant view of humanity as a species so evolved it has no idea where it came from. Still way ahead of its time.

Recommended listening:

Kode 9 & The SpaceApe - Memories Of The Future
Burial - Untrue
Everything on the Ghost Box label
The Caretaker