Because elections are always about the future, and I know people are angry about some things that have happened in the past on Iraq, but ultimately the future is about more than one issue.

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And some of you may know that we've got a big deficit because we just came out of a big recession, and so people are worried about how we're going to be able to pay for things in the future.

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The real question is whether there was anything new about what happened last week that might pave the way for such things to happen in the future.

ECONOMIST: American values

There is a lot more I will write in future blogs about the details of what we have planned in the Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M).

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What we do now is buy gold in the hope that things will get better in the future, and then we'd be able to brag about how much we had or just wear it.

NPR: Being Rich, and Careful, in Liberated Iraq

So it is here in Las Vegas, amid the buzz of Mandarin and Ms. Chen's exhortations about the value of making friends, when the jarring realization sets in: Of all things, of all places, perhaps the future of business looks like an Amway convention.

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