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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm optimistic about the future.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
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.
We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.
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.
The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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.
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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