Quotes About Future

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Aunque ya han aparecido plásticos realmente biodegradables derivados de azúcares vegetales naturales, así como un poliéster igualmente biodegradable hecho a base de bacterias, las probabilidades de que estos reemplacen a los originales derivados del petróleo no son muchas.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Christianity isn't about a return to or repristination of a mythic lost paradise or golden age of the past, but about the movement towards a yet unrealized future in which that past is surpassed in a glorified and surpassing realization of the goods within it.

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

Why do today what you can still do in a quarter of a million years?

But it's the greater fate of the Congregation that concerns me more. Our Occupation, and how it will end. I thought it silly of Rackamore to be troubled by such a distant concern, but I find it much harder to dismiss his fears now. What is the point of any deed, good or otherwise, if this little window of civilisation of ours will soon have its end?

Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

But I believe that the huge advances now being made in genetic research will be the key to personalized medicine one day.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

As long as we can imagine a better path, of course we are obligated to seek it. This is why unwarranted pessimism about our future is actually irresponsible.