A lot of young people, including me, seem to be getting a lot of "man, we're really living in the future" kind of emotional reactions relatively frequently.

I'm 33, and same here.

I like to point out the difference between the time I think of something cool and the time it is invented. In general, that time has been usually negative for a number of years now. As a trivial silly example, after hearing the Gangnam Style song, I said "I want to see the parody video called 'Gungan style' about Star Wars." (I just assumed it exists already). While there were indeed several such videos, the top result was instead a funnier video making fun of the concept of making such a parody video.