The Future Soon

"The Future Soon" is a music video for Jonathan Coulton's anthem for geeks and nerds everywhere. Those people who make fun of you now will be sorry, because in the future, you'll be running the whole show, and it'll be the future soon...
Jonathan Coulton is a singer/songwriter who releases his songs via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. Through his "Thing A Week" podcast, Jonathan has put out a clever, creative song like this one every week for a year.
Mike Spiff Booth is a Program Manager at Adobe who thought this great song really deserved a video.
Please visit www.spiffworld.com for more information about my videos, including info about how I make them.
The song at the end is "Furry Old Lobster", another great song by Jonathan Coulton about the tragic disappearance of the nations first true lobster (it's kind of hard to explain).

[@2Ensta]

14 years later and this song still speaks to me on a spiritual level.

[@subaruairbag]

I'm with you brother, listening to this while I torrent the new Linkin park album

[@bulutkaan5790]

Average 4Chan user🤓🤓🤓

[@lunch96box]

Same

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

yeah really thought the future would come sooner, my army of murderous robots (roombas with knives) aren't learning the value of life quite as well as I hoped. they also have no respect for furniture!

[@Kragith]

IT'S THE FUTURE NOW!!!!!!! ARE YOU STILL WEAK AND STRANGE??????

[@Devakiinable]

You know a song is a banger when the whole thing is the most replayed

[@jamiesmith2093]

too true

[@2Ensta]

Still watching this in 2024. I guess it's the future now.

[@alexeagleston5618]

I remember waiting in the cold for the bus during my freshmen year in college and watching this video for the first time. I’m about to turn 30 and just remembered this song while waiting for my bus to work. I should get a car.

[@davidwildix5282]

Did you get a car?

[@alexeagleston5618]

@@davidwildix5282 Fun fact, I have not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@davidwildix5282]

@@alexeagleston5618 hey man it is what it is

[@k1ll3rLE]

Are other things going somewhat good at least?

[@alexeagleston5618]

@@k1ll3rLE Oh yeah absolutely. I mean it’s 2020 and things a shit show across the globe. But work and home life are fine.

[@spiffworld]

BlizzCon was a dream. Everyone was super-supportive of my videos, and it was a ton of fun.

[@skirdus367]

It's 2020. Still waiting for the things that make me weak and strange to get engineered away

[@chaosmastermind]

The really sad part is, it's too late once you come out of the womb. So basically, only your kids would be able to change anyway.

[@mensly]

I'm working on it.

[@aaronpoole5655]

2022 still waiting

[@TheGamerApocalypse]

I hope you’re doing well man. Love that we’ve all come together for this song so many years later.

[@8KToast]

Cause you need to find the people who make those weaknesses feel like a strength. You’ll get there

[@Wimble333]

That line "Or is it" Gets me everytime, even when I'm just listening to the song, I don't even need he video.

[@Aikonelf]

This generation is getting old now, its already 7-8 years ago. I can remember it so vividly like yesterday, logging in at 6 oclock in the morning just because you cant sleep, thinking of wow. Sigh Wow had brought me happiness and sadness, stil I will never regret the time I spent there.

[@Fireblood94]

I know exactly how you feel buddy.

[@VirtualCurry]

Same here, man :)

[@PoWeRsOff]

There's more of us than anyone can count. Never forget, brothers. /bow

[@Fireblood94]

Can never forget the good times on WoW, I salute you my brothers and sisters who played WoW.

[@SirBuljo]

Yeah some of us, still try... to enjoy the game.. 12 years after the beginning... but it just ain't the same.. me and a friend who both began early and stayed for the whole ride... we don't enjoy it unless we play together.... but hey i met my wife in it and the best friend i could ever have. WoW sure changed my life.

[@GamingMediocrity]

Found this again after like, 8 years. Instant nostalgia.

[@Duck89111]

Same but 13 years

[@TantiPraenuntiaFabam]

Come back

[@condor2347]

Found this comment after like, 8 years, Instant nostalgia

[@PlatinumWoW]

This is the best one! So much creativity with the visuals

[@YoungSavage]

Tell me about it! I love em all, but this is the one I return to the most frequently.

[@pickol2485]

Yeah, this one and the Soterios Johnson one are my favorites out of the bunch!

[@Necroionutwiz]

wow i dident expect u to be here xD

[@ordelian7795]

@@Necroionutwiz Especially so late after the video is already 15 years old.

[@wimpi9167]

Watching these 10 years later and just realizing how much talent made these videos. Spiff and Jonathan both blow me away. The storytelling on both sides just compliment each other perfectly. These are official music videos as far as I'm concerned lol.

[@scubeyjim3630]

Holy shit Wow is old, the funny part is it's still the most popular MMORPG. Warcraft will always have a special place in my heart.

[@soulmanoo]

Actually I'm pretty sure league of legends is more popular.

[@scubeyjim3630]

League of legends is not a MMORPG, it's a MOBA.

[@soulmanoo]

Sorry i just assumed you were talking about MMO's in general :P

[@soulmanoo]

I'm talking about raw play hours not accounts, but i agree the F2p aspect must help a lot.

[@MattDaniek]

Scubey Jim It's not the most popular Rune Scape is.

[@lucywilliams3236]

"When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his bride" was my favorite part XD

[@austinballard8867]

when i was in middle school i used to listen to this song over and over again as a kid. I was gay and i got bullied and i felt so alone and i had no friends i would just sit at home playing WoW and listening to music all day when i wasn't at school. i just wanted to grow up so fast, to meet someone else like me and fall in love or make new friends or whatever. That was like 8 years ago. Now im an adult, im on the path to becoming a successful glassblower, im engaged to an amazing boy, and im surrounded by amazing friends. I wish i could go back and give that middle schooler a hug and tell him everything would work out amazing in the end. Childhood is precious, if there are any kids out there reading this; it's gonna get better i promise. EDIT: almost 10 years after i wrote this comment, the future continues to arrive! so much has changed, and i just get happier. Don't stop moving y'all - your future is coming soon!

[@adonizap]

Austin Ballard Congrats, man!

[@DomIstKrieg]

Austin Ballard When you are a kid, that shit seems massive. School, social circles and such. When you leave you realise, none of it means anything. Everything gets magnified to preposterous levels. Well done on suceeding.

[@ThallanarRabidtooth]

+Brettski89 More like ASS BLOWER HAHAHAHAHA I'm gay too.

[@radongc115]

Austin Ballard also being gay and being engaged to a man is not winning

[@SilentBudgie]

Guy Fieri Don't be mean.

[@soapygirl83]

I think this song perfectly captures of the darker parts of nerd cutlure one that because we're underdogs were somehow entitled to have people like us, and that when we're picked on we're always told that our lives will be better in the future

[@huuminbloodborn7570]

So many years ago I watched nearly all ur vids in 2006-2008, and I loved every one of them

[@SirBuljo]

me too, me too.. especially this one and i feel fantastic.

[@huuminbloodborn7570]

Sir Buljo my faves were cruel cruel moon, I feel fantastic, and future soon, I watched the others 3-4 times.

[@Jerakal]

God I miss this guy's movies.

[@allyski5914]

this is still 100% a bop

[@TheUraharaFan]

''It's not your fault,... or is it?'' I love that line.

[@JetSetDex]

I remember watching this 13 years ago, how time flies.

[@edge6441]

2021 whose here with me? Great vid! I miss these old wow days where things were simpler and happier!

[@shortstop1231000]

The saddest part of this song is the irony, his life sucks because he's an outcast and all he has are his fantasies, which he knows are just fantasies (because they are so ridiculous) but it is all that he has. His refuge becomes his prison and the only way he can escape is by burrowing deeper and deeper into the ground, away from the world and then to nestle in the cocoon of his own imagination. Reminds me of the Simon and Garfunkel song "I am a Rock".

[@xxLilMissKatherinexx]

Just thought of this song again, haven't heard it since I was a kid. Super happy to find this again.

[@ramzie1944]

Hah! I’m going down the same nostalgia rabbit hole as you did a year ago. Comforting to know that the videos are still here and that people still come back to them.

[@jeremydodd4597]

I can't even express the feeling listening to these songs gives me. I think it's mostly sadness that ill never be a kid any more, constantly amazed by the best parts of wow. The feeling when you log in for the first time, listening to this song. Its just...... perfect. :) Memories of wow are the best memories, and I speak for all of us when I say I hope Legion is fucking amazing.

[@Domedar]

+Jeremy Dodd it has garrison tables... :(

[@Malachite7]

The garrison tables are meant to be small parts of the xpac.. Hopefully there's more content out in the world.

[@Wowgamer12344]

"Or... is it?!" I fucking died, I don't know why.

[@thatarmswarrior]

favourite part of the song.. and the video makes it 10x better xD

[@xilch0]

I love how I listen to and watch these videos about 10 years later. Thats when you know youve done something right.

[@Basteal]

3:00 When the robot eyes narrow I feel great joy.

[@LiliumCruorem]

So many good memories of grinding through silverpine and hillsbrad into arathi highlands to JoCo’s songs. Big love to spiffworld for showing me Jonathan Coulton.

[@mynchNstars]

I also have watched these videos a ton throughout the years and realized I should definitely thank you for making them (: Much awesomeness!!

[@TheMetalhead678]

I used to listen to this on the first days of playing WoW and it brings back awesome memories.

[@Loki1191]

"The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time." Marcus Aurelius

[@FlumpySpud]

Just had a major flashback to the good old days I’m so glad this is still here so many memories unlocked through this video 😂

[@evangelionaddict8212]

We're going home again boys, the future is now. The future is Classic WoW.

[@fenriswolf5876]

Hell yes

[@ostrogothiccyoutube8118]

are you sure about that?

[@therlihy1]

"... Or IS IT?" That part of the video cracks me up every time, very nice :D

[@Berkaelzar]

I could listen to all this cheerful songs all day long, and having good ol' wow is the icing of the cake.

[@CGCGCG91]

This story describes me perfectly during school. I left, went to university and now my life is pretty awesome. I was a shut in for the first 20 years of my life. Life really turns round once you get out of school

[@spiffworld]

The song is on Coulton's "Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow" album, but you have to order it online because it's not available in stores.

[@mkb7001]

remember albums? and media stores?

[@sinum1490]

Wow...this song sure got me through some tough times... Seriously, It's amazing to look back at how far one has gotten in almost 8 years. Still haven't created a robot army yet though...Oh well, maybe that will be my goal for 2023?

[@abdullaalmarri4562]

+Linus De Witt couldnt have said it better

[@Artorrien]

+Linus De Witt Yo, if you want help making that robot army, I'm sure about 1,000,000 people will come help out, me being one of them

[@SirBuljo]

And me.

[@sinum1490]

Well since I'm being offered, I wouldn't mind being your inmovative robot using overlord at all

[@sinum1490]

Edit: it's been 3 years since that comment. Jesus time moves fast.

[@Zethneralith]

All these years later and I can't think of this song without thinking of this video. Nostalgia.

[@lukejohnson8777]

I watched this when I was rather young, quite a few times, and I looked it up once again. Life is strange to us all and I think it's awesome you found this song relateable as well.

[@Kiwani]

This is just a very awesome fun song, it sounds very good aswell! But the thing that makes it perfect is the message its telling, your awesome mate keep going!

[@Razercake]

Sorry to tell you this but he stopped 3 years ago :( i miss the good old days sadly there is no sign of him ever coming back.

[@Kiwani]

Razercake Awhh, that's too bad cause he's got real talent!

[@PxlFlame]

Razercake who stopped 3 years ago? Jonathan Coulton? Or the guy who made the video?

[@Razercake]

***** The guy who made the video

[@AsTheWorldSpinsAgain]

Greetings from the far future of 2019

[@Krekka200]

This was one of the first videos I religiously watched on KZbin.

[@BrandonBlackmoor]

This is so well done. Thank you.

[@LazyMasquerade]

Oddballs and Outcasts UNITE!!!

[@TheKing60210]

I feel like I'm in a time Machine looking at these comments

[@TheRedWolvesFTW]

Man, it's like a blast from the past.

[@1992Xaldin]

Did not expect to find a Lazy comment here

[@TheHorreK2]

this got dark very fast...

[@drworm73]

Love this! Best one of these I have seen.

[@synapfluxnln9317]

I LOVE this song and video!

[@secularmonk5176]

Peter Thiel's diary ...

[@RyanlovesWaxnDabs]

2020

[@VictoryfortheFreeman]

fuck I'm old

[@RyanlovesWaxnDabs]

the future sucks i wanna go back

[@arpez]

this song is awesome... feel so identified by it

[@suineg1]

Such a great song !

[@Ficojepet]

every single trans-humanist in a nutshell

[@ferd617]

Don't mess with the Zoltan!

[@ferd617]

Ficojepet Zoltan is the name of the transhumanist party's leader. (And "Don't Mess With The Zohan" was a terrible Adam Sandler movie.)

[@taka2517]

I used to listen to this with like 10 or whatever. And I became some what a trans-humanist. You shattered my world.

[@Zeithri]

All of you have a thumbs-up for mentioning Transhumanism .

[@evangelionaddict8212]

Hey now, we're not all incels some of us just want robot arms alright?

[@zaapeer]

Brilliant song, i love it

[@TheGamerApocalypse]

These machinima effects were way ahead of their time. Spiff hope you are thriving in 2023 much love!

[@AmittenMan]

My favourite of his songs.

[@Ericuotila]

This video makes me so happy. Thank you Spiffworld and Jonathan Coulton, you guys frigging rock!

[@xxyoloproxx7230]

15 years later and this still hits right.

[@HUMMUD3]

the best video ever ive been watching this video from the moment u maked it and i still love more then before ;) great job man

[@ChristopherKelly-jy6ut]

Great song and super fun to play on guitar! Way to go, Jo Co!

[@MyPotatoCamVidz]

Love you spiff thanks for making joco's easy to read favorite song!

[@NathanR1993]

Nostalgia.. it's already here

[@mabgamer6407]

This Is one of My Fav of your Videos. I love the Singer and i love your Videos Your videos Are fantastic!

[@nahiku8521]

back for quarantine baybeh, god what an amazing throw back

[@Utubeboii2K10]

My fave song EVER!

[@polarqueen1232]

FAVE jonathan coulton song!

[@maxartyom]

just awesome

[@jameswturley]

This song and video are awesome...10 outta 10 ! Nice job Guys, keep those songs and vids comin !

[@WhoTouchedMyReindeer]

All those nights soaring through Zangarmarsh, listening to Coulton, Flight of the Conchords and Weird Al - as was my musical fancy at the time. How time flies. It's the future, and I hate it here.

[@RedGemAlchemist]

This is one of my favourite songs, and this video really does it justice, Good job!

[@Slappybag46]

What an awesome song

[@rororat]

When my heart is breaking I can close my eyes, and its already here.

[@Lanceawright]

A Masters work endures.

[@warthog73X200]

"When the things that make me weak and strange get Engineered away." Brilliant Line! i can relate to that feeling.

[@Veishan]

That was spectacular!

[@Harvesterofpie]

Great song, fantastic video!

[@stevec.7017]

Met Mike Spiff Booth at a Johnathan Coulton concert in SF. The one JC taped. My son was more excited to meet Spiff than to see the concert. 😅. Very very very nice guy.

[@MrMaskfan]

epic. i love this song!

[@steven9331]

Remember singing this to my ex, song brings back great memories of times long gone. Still one of the greatest gems imo :)

[@Bloodharvest13]

spiffworld, you make the best videos for these songs.

[@MrWowgamer10]

i love this one man!!

[@tomorrowsdinner]

So relatable. Made me sad.

[@OzFush]

Magnificent.

[@EmbervH]

Youre really on point with your choice of animations.. its awesome!

[@lunch96box]

Can still remember when this video was new and I was playing wow while jamming to this and code monkey

[@2Ass2Ass1Sin]

i used to be like that too and i still am. you are really young to turn you life into the way you want it to be. nothing is wrecked yet.

[@VVeltanschauung187]

Listened to this song from a break up years ago and I feel slightly sad listening to it, but still a kickass song

[@Boomtyphoon]

awesome song!

[@caitlinlovesstars]

perfection.

[@_Brief_]

Awsome!

[@anakinskywalker212]

dude this is awsome

[@gregsoccult]

This is brillient.

[@kjemik]

it's timeless! :D

[@PaladinswordSaurfang]

awesome song, great music

[@djforeverdog2103]

what a beautiful story man, makes me cry everytime

[@chaz618]

One of my favorite videos by spiff :D

[@skahtay16]

This has to be the best wow music video ever! Very well done with clever wow props and the song is just so random and funny! Just plain awesome!

[@AOESQUAD]

i love this so much :D

[@DbeatFireMask]

AAAwwwwww , so many memories ...

[@servil25]

Genius!