The next to slip away, Baldrige mused, could be the future itself: computers and chips.
So could this be the future here too as children increasingly turn to the courts ?
But Facebook, or Wave, or something very like them, could be the future of work.
Perhaps the sun over the Sahara could indeed be the future super generator of our electricity.
This should be the future, and I hope in a couple of years you can see it.
The deliberate design of programs that blend online engagement with offline engagement may be the future of government.
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Freedom will be the future of every nation and every people on Earth.
"There are other trains in Europe but for me high-speed train will be the future of Europe, " he says.
"The Secretary is not promoting any individual or group to be the future government of Iraq, " Wolfowitz told TIME.
They and their descendants may well be the future high earners upon whom the burden of the Bush-Obama deficits fall.
That same year he had a revelation, after watching The Polar Express, that 3-D would be the future of filmmaking.
While embedded technologies and new apps could be the future, today, the company's core business--sales of PC cards--is also getting stronger.
Investors have yet to grasp that while the Web may be the future, the future does not lie in ad revenues.
That would be the future where all those kids and grandkids we continuously pretend to be worried about can be found.
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When I took over the company three years ago, we knew that print textbooks would not be the future of higher ed.
With the arrival of the new automated National Stock Exchange (NSE) in 1994, he could see that electronic trading would be the future.
He says electric and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, combined with engineering improvements to increase range and reduce weight, will be the future of motoring.
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Will the worlds best and brightest continue to take jobs at investment banks, or will the cyclical shift to startup jobs be the future?
The serialized piece of fiction draws the reader in with interactive elements, creating a new kind of narrative that could be the future of e-books.
It looked likely that the French would be the future negotiators.
It will be the future home of their advanced battery manufacturing.
That may not be the future most industry executives were expecting, but it is the kind of demand environment in which they know they can thrive.
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This application might be the future as we've always imagined it, but until it arrives, it's impossible to know if it will ever dominate the present.
So we've got to constantly look for those opportunities in solar and in wind, and in other hi-tech areas, because that's going to be the future.
What should be the future strategy for multinational firms trying to take in this Chinese wave of raw materials imports and low-cost manufacturing and sourcing in Africa?
And we ask that you help us to ensure a better education, a better life, well-being for our children, because they're going to be the future leaders.
If this is to be the future, we can expect 5-10 years of inflation at the 5% level and, with luck, there will not be a sudden vicious burst into the 10-20% zone.
Given that the summit's principal focus will be the future of Afghanistan, a discussion without the participation of Pakistan would have been a bit like trying to stage "Hamlet" without Hamlet appearing on stage.
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