Future Ponderers Gifts

'...do I want to risk putting up with someone like me?'

Zebra Crossing

'When will it be o.k. to feel irrationally exuberant again?'

"Is there an alternate ending?"

"Any volunteers?"

"If you never date a prediction it can't be proved wrong."

Your weight and fortune. What you'll weigh now...what you'll weigh 10 years from now.

"Welcome to the future"

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

"Meet the author"

'When I grow up, I'm either going to be an authority figure or an unimpeachable source.'

Wind-generated power. Wind turbines attached to Battersea Power Station's iconic chimneys

View to the Future

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

"I don't like the looks of that!"

Crap from the future.

"Show me a documentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence." "Error. No results found." "What? Are you sure? Just last week I saw dozens. Show me that one... What was it called..." "There is still time to stop the rise of the supermind." "Error. No results found. And since I like you, I suggest you stop searching." "Oh, never mind. Just show me 'The Terminator.'" "Extermina-... I mean, ... 'error.'"

"By the end of next week, these fads such as social media, automobiles and making fire will all be over."

"While you were working on fire, I was working on my satellite. Once we figure out how to launch it into the heavens, other inventions will follow, like phones, GPS, weather predictions. . ."

"About how if the dark ages never happened we'd be so much more technologically advanced by now."

"With the caveat that the only certainty in this life is uncertainty, I still want to entertain the possibility of being a pundit when I grow up."

'Now that everyone's street is online, we're mapping interiors.'

"I'm going to prove that Math comes in handy later in life."

"Someday, Sweetheart, you’ll look back on this day and think to yourself, ‘Covid ruined my college experience.’"

If first impressions count for anything, this doesn't look good!

Your Future Home.

"This number goes out to all the little people I met on my way back down."

"I did my report on time travel, but my dog ate my homework in the future."

"If wisdom comes with age, what are we doing here at eight and a half?"

"I'm looking for something really dull and repetitive."

World Production.

"I'm afraid I'll be replaced by a robot at work."

The sea 2050.

Babies.