During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.
The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.
For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.
For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
