True enough, forecasting stock prices into the far far future can make a fool out of anyone.
They seem willing to buy long-term instruments without much compensation for the extra uncertainty the far future holds.
In the far future, it may be possible to prevent genetic diseases from being inherited by cutting them out of the gene pool once and for all, so-called germline engineering.
It could be the past, it could be in the far future, you could be out in space, it could even be maybe told from the point of view of an alien.
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In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
If in the far future, the only documents from this era of American history that social historians have to work with are Tax Court decisions, I bet they could do a pretty fair job of reconstructing many of the changes in our culture.
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The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
As far as future technologies, Holtzer and Twardowski see a few on the horizon: auto-tinting curtain wall glass is not far away.
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Economists worry about the appropriate discount rate, if any, to apply when assessing the seriousness of low-probability far-future catastrophes of very large scale.
Set a billion years into the future, the Numenera mythology is not your typical fantasy or science fiction setting, though Cook says the blend of magic and machinery should be familiar to readers of far-future fantasy such as one might encounter reading Gene Wolfe.
Ten years ago, we had a big budget surplus with projected surpluses far into the future.
There was even talk among judges of a possible Nobel Prize far in the future.
Some day not so far in the future, these views may be mainstream again.
But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future.
S. Who knew we'd be rocking the Samsung F480 Tocco so far into the future?
Interim valuations, particularly in start-up companies, whose worth, if any, lies far in the future, are difficult.
Most people think that the current water system can cope with urban growth far into the future.
Still, while plans proceed full-steam-ahead for "Catching Fire, " Mr. Friedman cautioned against looking too far into the future.
"Refrigerator numbers may happen, but it's far in the future, " says Carl Everett, senior vice president at Dell.
Not just save your estate taxes in the far-off future, mind you, which is what trusts customarily do.
His predecessor was sacked after she came up with a plan for minimal emissions cuts far in the future.
"Refrigerator numbers may happen, but it's far in the future, " says Carl Everett, a senior vice president at Dell.
And not too far into the future, either, at least in geological terms.
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But Mr Iverson has no doubt that, not too far in the future, they will overcome that hurdle too.
Mrs Merkel, caught off guard, agrees in principle but thinks such a referendum still lies far in the future.
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And will they even have black t-shirts available that far into the future?
But the rebuilding of roads and bridges could stretch far into the future.
He believes the fiscal cliff will be punted far into the future, perhaps after the next midterm elections in 2014.
If we wish to avoid some pain today, we create even more pain, and not that far in the future.
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