References Regarding reference 126 Books of the year 2003 Books Arts The Economist 2003 12 04 Retrieved 2007 08 06 This is cited as the source of the quote The future is already here it s just not evenly distributed There was no issue of the Economist published on December 4 I checked to see if this was a dating error and examined the April 12 issue but I could not find this quote either Perhaps it is in another issue He does say this in a National Public Radio Interview NPR interview 30 November 1999 Timecode 11 55 but I am not sure if this is the original source as he states he has said this many times