For one thing, statisticians would have to make assumptions about the relative value of, say, the environment and new buildings not just today, but many years from now.
The problem is that we have an obligation to keep Social Security sound so the people who are working today and who are going to be retiring and getting benefits many years from now can count on the system.
The reality is that a sacrifice of some sort will have to be incurred by the present generation for the sake of people who will exist many years from now, in richer societies than ours and, most probably, in countries not our own.
Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now.
The spectacular mountainous regions of Central Asia, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas, closed for many years to visitors from abroad, now attract growing numbers of foreign tourists attracted by the unique cultures and natural beauty of these hitherto isolated areas.
Much of this is about changing demographics, and the fear that many Americans have that, 30 years from now, whites will be the minority.
And while there is no doubt the political machines themselves will load up on the Nate Silvers in the coming months and years, many of us will still be subsisting on high calorie, high-fat political thought ten years from now.
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Much of it stems from what many have called social media for years now.
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So the long-term risk here is that we've bailed out so many institutions, we might bail out another institution in five years from now, 10 years from now.
It was only many years later in 1989, Mr Beyeler says, when an exhibition from his now astonishing collection made a hit in Madrid, that he first realised that his paintings really ought to be on permanent exhibition somewhere.
What that suggests to me is that if we expect that this rate is going to double every year, then look out ten years, 2 to the 10th is 1024 , ten years from now people will be sharing about a thousand times as many things.
Of course, Detroit's Big Three have suffered from a perceived quality disparity with Japan's Big Three for many years now.
And I think that many of the hip-hop songs that I have in my book will have relevance from years from now as well.
Yes, he was a stock picker and now after many years of reading newsletters, watching cable news and picking up tips from waiting rooms to water coolers he was done-once and for all.
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This year, as has been true for many years now, all across this nation, in cities and towns thousands of miles away from here, families are saying a word of thanks to a Senator they never knew or met because a Pell Grant helped open the door to college.
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), the investment firm that I co-founded with David Booth 31 years ago, now can be counted as one of the many companies that has moved its headquarters from California.
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