Future Researcher Gifts

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Nothing. I'm going into stem cell research."

"Hunting and gathering are okay, Dad, but I'd like to get into research and development!"

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

"Welcome to the future"

"Good boy."

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

"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.'

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

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!"

'Will you raise my allowance? I want to play doctor but can't afford the malpractice insurance.'

"When I grow up, I want to go into medicine and help people who can pay out of pocket."

Crap from the future.

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

"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."

"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."

Little Doctor meets Little Geneticists.

"You know what happens when you make good grades? They send you to another school called college."

"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."

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!, 'Boy, talk about psychobabbl!'

Gracie's baby toys.

'The path to becoming an astronaut is rougher than I thought.'

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

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

"Maybe he's so sad that he's leaving us to go to college that he actually looks happy. Please don't ruin it for me with reality."

"I've decided to cut out the middleman and self-publish."

"Here...let me call an expert...someone who knows about these things."

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