This will help you do better when facing similar situations in the future.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

With many facing an uncertain employment future, trust in the financial institutions and in politicians has evaporated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Like the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 which set up the World Bank and the IMF, the Ditchley Park conference grappled with the structural and institutional challenges facing the future.

FORBES: From Bretton Woods to Ditchley Park: Making prosperity sustainable

The hiatus in air travel could be a rehearsal for a post-jet age if the peak oil theory is correct and we are facing a future with insufficient fuel to put into planes.

FORBES: The Icelandic Volcano And Quiet Skies Over London

Good news, folks: Time Warner (disclosure: our parent company's parent company is owned by Time Warner) is facing a future of "download-to-burn" DVD movies with grim determination, and expects said apocalypse to occur sometime in 2007.

ENGADGET: Time Warner expects download-to-burn movies to hit in '07