As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging there is a simplicity that is crucial.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and in a sense we have to.

I can't predict the future.

If this is not done future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale to dynamism to consensus and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

The Web as I envisaged it we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

For example the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.