Future Dreamers Gifts

'I see a bright future, a transformation: Beauty, wings, elegance...'

"Swings are like life...you have your ups and downs...and then you take a giant jump into the unknown!"

'According to this stop watch I'm not growing up fast enough.'

'Michael and I are playing 'married.' I'm getting ready and he's sitting in the car beeping the horn.'

Roger Ebert as a kid 'I know God gave me a gift. I just don't know what it is yet.'

Your Best Years/Your Uncertain Future

"When adults ask what you want to be when you grow up, say Content Creator. That covers a lot of bases."

Child watching a rocket launch which reads 'war'.

'I can't wait to lave school - just think, no more mistakes for sixty years...'

'I can't wait to grow up and just go to that machine and get money!'

"Sometimes, time travel isn't such a good idea."

"Figures...as soon as I start focusing on my future...I nearly get squashed by the present."

"Josh, whatcha gonna be when you grow up? A doctor? A pharmacist? President?"

The fate of the emigrant

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

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

"Remember, education pays, unless you end up an adjunct - like me."

"You may now kiss the bride."

"My parents are going to pay for my education but I'm on my own for any attorney's fees."

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...'

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

"FREEDOM!!!"

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

'If I've calculated correctly, I have two more birthdays before I never have to mow the lawn again.'

"Well, once you get your PhD on 'The Return of the Repressed in Early Jacobean Drama', then we;ll discuss how disappointed you are."

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

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

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

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

Research -Development - Wishful Thinking

"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.'

"Yeah, you were Tolkein in your sleep. . ."

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

'Congratulations. It's an eight pound court reporter.'