We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
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We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.
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