It is...or rather, our worlds are different ages.

*It's a small detail, but who knows, it may be useful to have in mind someday. He had followed every scrap of rumor about the Tower in his world, after all, no matter how outlandish.

And he used "are", not "were". There is hope.*

I'm educated, in my world, more than most...and yet...to the future, I know so very little.