Knee-jerk reaction: "Of all the other historical-prototypes or fictional-examples, he triumphantly highlights... a recent Call of Duty game? He must be pretty young."

Nothing wrong with that--we all were once--but I'm offering it as feedback since I'm probably not the only reader nursing a sudden rush of get-off-my-lawn-ness.

Perhaps more importantly, the gestalt behind "we're in the future now" is very different depending on how far in the past you first remember "the future" being predicted.