And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something.
Not only is there no clean coal now, there is no practical technology on the horizon that will produce electricity by burning coal in a manner than is cost competitive and eliminates emissions.
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Or there is the now de rigeur tumblr as there is for any either important or trivial world event.
In fact, there is no premium on AAPL right now, there is a huge discount being offered that I can no longer ignore.
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"There is now a generation of young people for whom there is nothing on offer, " he said.
In rural areas like Araioses there are fruit trees, there are rivers to be fished, now there are free school meals and there is a sense of solidarity that encourages the sharing of food.
They closed the press office of the criminal unit of the police, and now there is no one there.
Had he not exaggerated the scale of his victory, Taheri said, unlike in previous presidential elections, it is possible there wouldn't be the outcry there is now.
Another factor is that there now is lots of competition also pursuing American consumers who want high-mileage small cars.
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"There is clearly a fairly large anti-European feeling among the majority of Conservative voters, now there is the mess in Cyprus this week, " he said.
"There wasn't much hope a few years ago, but now there is considerable optimism" says Moses Chao, a molecular neurobiologist at New York University.
There has been no real answer there so now he is in Colorado to see Dr Steadman.
There was already a lot of pressure on Beyonce to deliver at this upcoming Super Bowl, now there is certainly even more pressure.
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"That background in government popularity and faith that Blair would deliver in the end that I was fighting against in 2001 is not there at all today so the great opportunity is now there for the Conservative Party, " he added.
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Claire Ward, who was one of the 101 Labour women elected in 1997, says there are so many other women in the Commons now that there is always someone to find solidarity with.
And there is ample evidence that despite all the precautions and enforcement measures now in place, there is more and more dirty money floating in the international financial system now than ever before.
And certainly, in past years, there's a lot more of that than there is now.
But there is now a worry there isn't the financial backing that was there before.
Right now there is a Book of Ideas open at Future Mobility Now, a project of the European car industry to define mobility in the near future by connecting with young people.
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But whereas a few years ago it could have been true that a Lagos road would have been one of the worst places in the world to find yourself, now there is little chance that you will be stationary, unless there is a broken down lorry, or the presidential convoy makes a visit from the capital city, Abuja.
For now there is no mobile version, it doesn't loop in Instagram, there's no API (which would allow outside developers to build related apps), and it's only in English.
Right now there is a paradox: We spend more than any industrialized country, but our health is fair to middling among other developed nations.
The opportunity to act is now because there is a Sri Lankan President totally committed to peace, Chandrika Kumaratunga.
Ferguson has previously said that he was "certain" Hargreaves would be fit for the beginning of the 2009-2010 campaign but it is now believed there is little chance of that happening.
Right now there is a lot more dread about drugs that will lose patent protection than there is excitement about the company's experimental medicines, even though Pfizer is now testing 47 midstage compounds, more than at any other time in its history.
The National Health Service is still with us, but now there is a lot of argument about how it will be paid for, as we all live longer and money is tighter, but nobody from any political party would dare to talk about scrapping it.
But, friends, never in the history of our country was there an opportunity so great for the poor man to get rich as there is now and in the city of Philadelphia.
There is now less residential segregation than there was a decade ago.
There is now clear evidence that wage growth is accelerating.
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