Future-past Dreamer Gifts

Future Nostalgia

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

The fate of the emigrant

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

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

Barcode Dreams

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Robocop and Juliet.

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

'I'm designing a robot that'll do my drafting homework for me,'

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

Next Time-Portal 5 Miles...

City Windfarms.

'If you don't like the way I program, just say so!'

'And the Dance Scholarship goes to...'

"What makes you question our motives for coming here?"

The End of the World is postponed from 2000 to 2112.

"In pre-school I was an overachiever. Now, in first grade, math is threatening my reputation."

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...'

"If we're musketeers, why can't we just shoot people? with muskets?"

Clone Factory

A word from James Cameron. . .

Children's imagination

"Ready. Aim. Pew! Pew!"

"One day she'll be a wonderful architect."

"'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.'

Turing Test Today

Man sees 'Palm Readings and Stock Projections' business window

"Gas, is it the future?"

On John Lennon: 'WE may say he's a dreamer,...but he's not the only one.'

Desert Planet

Inbox and Outbox

"I have designed us new, steam-powered space suits."

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.