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It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.