Are we there yet?

So I saw another sign for "Dippin' Dots -- Ice Cream of the Future."

Have I not been seeing that sign since it first showed up in malls in the early 90s? When do we officially cross that "Ice Cream of Now" dateline? You didn't see Mercury calling the Tracer the "Hatchback of the Future" during the first Bush administration, did you?

Did some snooping around on their website. Here are some tidbits:

1987 -- Microbiologist Curt Jones begins research to cryogenically freeze ice cream mix into small beads

1995 -- New 32,000 sq. ft. production facility opens in Paducah

2003 -- Company constructs largest -50°F commercial walk-in freezer in North America at its Kentucky facility.
(which saves me having to do further research to figure out where the hell Paducah is.)

2006 -- Dippin' Dots available in The Netherlands

2008 -- Appearing in "Modern Marvels" show about the History of Ice Cream (check local listings)