Being in a position where he can get a mortgage, he says, isn't something he can even envisage.
Some even envisage the return of the steel frame with pre-painted body panels hung on it, as used for the runabouts produced by Mercedes's Smart division.
"The perfect site would be an old Woolworths," he says, and even envisages food "picked to order in an Argos-type system".
As patches and monitors become smaller and more lightweight, he even envisages a time when vital sign data will be collected seamlessly, 24/7, without the need for the patient to take an active role.
Indeed, the more pragmatic among whale conservationists even envisage allowing Japan a local quota for whaling – thereby curtailing their unregulated pelagic fleet – in return for some kind of control.
One steel boss even envisages exporting steel to America from Europe if the euro were replaced by weak national currencies in, for instance, Spain and Italy".The collateral effect of the euro crisis can be global," says the finance director of a British company with a huge business in continental Europe.
I'd mistakenly assumed that record labels still stuck singles out on 7in – I had even envisaged a rather thrilling world of limited-edition coloured-vinyl singles and picture discs – but it turns out the much-touted vinyl revival hasn't reached the arena of top 40 pop.
Imagine telling a young boy that when he grows up he will create food for astronauts to eat in space – it's a dream I couldn't even envisage, let alone it coming true! "Working with the team at the UK Space Agency, ESA and Nasa has been a phenomenal experience.
On individual civil liberties, he was not always a supporter of traditional values; he was a strong critic of the right to silence, and even envisaged the admissibility in a criminal trial of an accused's previous convictions in certain circumstances.
Jobs that we can not even envisage yet?
