references regarding reference books of the year books arts the economist retrieved 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 i checked to see if this was a dating error and examined the april 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 november timecode but i am not sure if this is the original source as he states he has said this many times