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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

The future is here.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.