Family Future Fantasizer Gifts

'I was just looking at you and wondering what my grandchildren would look like if you and my daughter started dating again, fell in love, got married and had some!'

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

The fate of the emigrant

"Don't worry, they normally look like little humans during the early scans."

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

"Sure, I'm a successful working bee, but sometimes, I wish I could have a family..."

Three businessmen using a pulley system to change a graph

"What is it? You're not wet or hungry. Mommy's not a mind reader. OK, I am, but I've never been very good at it."

"Right here is your baby’s infrastructure, and in a month or so we’ll be able to see the analytics."

People and robots

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

I’d like to declare my interest. In what? Commitment. Two kids and a dog. Commitment to kids and a dog? And to going for long walks on the beach, to gazing up at the stars, to growing old together … What? I thought you were talking about two kids. That sounds like eight. And why would only tow grow old together? What about the other six? Are you saying they'll grow old at different rates? ... Or are you saying the other six will meet some untimely fate and not grow old at all? Then she asked if

"Have you considered trying for a puppy?"

"'How to Buy Tickets on Bezos' Spaceship so You Can Live to See Your Teens,' by Chloe Butler."

'In the future, that should produce thousands of PhD theses.'

"Someday our robots will have all our anxieties for us."

Minion, I'm ordering you not to talk about alternate histories with the customers. No more "what if feudalism never happened" nonsense. If people start thinking things could've been different, they'll soon start thinking things could've been better. Which could lead to them thinking things can still get better. This "gap between rich and poor" thing is working out in my favor. I don't want your talk of alternate pasts to accidentally create any alternate futures. Very bad man.

"Man, how to you guys get that great new flying saucer smell in here?!'

Drone Baby Delivery

'There is NO way I can perform under that kind of pressure!'

"It's a time machine. I came to show it to you next week but you were busy."

'One day, after they unfreeze my DNA, this will all be mine again.'

'What worries me is what is going to replace automation.'

"We can make you more pregnant than you ever though possible."

"Papi! Papi! I figured it out! I know exactly what I'm gonna be when I grow up!"

Wheel

The passage of time.

'Don't get your hopes up...the future isn't what it used to be!'

"I remember when the Wheel was just in Science Fiction stories..."

The year is 2203 and there's finally peace on earth. . . Also everything is underwater.

"Ever since he saw the new budget he's been obsessing over the numbers."

I heard you're going to Mars to star on some reality show. Yep. Mars One. We launch ten years from now. Ten years? You don't have the attention span to wait ten minutes. In ten years, you'll have forgotten all about this. And when that day comes, I will mock and berate you mercilessly. You'll be dead in ten years. Ridiculing you gives me a reason to go on! Being around you gives me a reason to go to Mars.

"How long is it now to your retirement, Potter?"

'I'm sorry, Jerome. Instead of marriage and having kids, I've decided just to have myself cloned.'

"Maybe the fish are all in school today, Dad!"