Quick Thinkers Gifts

'I'm a bit pressed for time. Give me your one-minute elevator pitch.'

Sign falling from wall reading 'Think fast!'

"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."

It would be a painful forty five minutes before Arthur finally admitted he left his presentation at home.

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

Crap from the future.

'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'

"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.'"

"Don't you just hate restaurants that make you feel rushed?"

"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. . ."

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

"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.’"

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

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

'Why, I don't exactly know -- how long HAVE we been here, Bobo?'

Your Future Home.

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

"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.

Nuclear generation of energy.

Power in our Democracy: The Vote