What if you could do actual magic if you could change the color of a deck of playing cards if you could know any card that was chosen without using a marked deck or a step in stack or even a stripper deck.

What if you could actually pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Hey, it's Seth and this is a Kimbo.

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When my grandfather was born, many houses in the United States had no electricity. When my dad was born, cars were insanely unreliable. It was really hard to imagine transporting yourself around the country, never mind, around the world.

And when I was born, we still hadn't had Star Trek yet. That the world's fair in 1964 was filled with sensational new technologies like video phones, which are sort of like Zoom calls.

What happened to the future and what are we going to do about it?

The future has always been filled with possibility and wonder and getting to the future has usually caused cultures populations to feel a little seasick.

Back when Thomas Edison demonstrated things like record players and movies, it freaked some people out.

Some people out, one movie, while the train headed straight out of the screen, so freaked people out that they were fainting in the aisles.

But if you were able to do the kind of card tricks I was talking about 150 years ago, you would have been one of the richest people in town.

You would have sold out theaters day after day after day.

Today, if you could do those things, you might be lucky to get 10,000 views on YouTube filled with comments of people telling you they know how you did the trick.

Something happened to the future along the way.

If we think about Star Trek, where some of the greatest minds in science fiction thought as hard as they could about crazy things that could happen in the future.

Two of them physically impossible teleportation and faster than light travel are never going to happen.

But the others, oh I know a little device that you could flip open with a tiny sound and call anybody any time carried in your pocket.

Oh I know a tricorder and we could use it to figure out your vital signs without cutting you open.

Look, I'm a doctor, not an escalator. Spock, give me a hand.

You get the idea that back when we had the early world's fares in the late 1800s cracker jacks were a sensation.

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