Look ahead five years... ten years... fifty years, perhaps.
The original intention for the digital strategy was to look ahead five years to guide the parliamentary agenda on the digital economy.
I think that if we look ahead five years, certainly 10 years, the publishing landscape will be very different with many more companies gone, many more types of products gone, content consumed in very different ways.
As I look ahead three years, I'm both excited and worried, and I have only a partial answer to the question posed by my headline as to whether the net will be "safe" to use in 2020.
It is something where you look ahead five years and think, 'where are you going to be at that point in time'?
With your vision in hand, you can look ahead five years into your future and know where you'll live, how you, your spouse, and children will spend your Sundays together, and how you'll contribute to your community.
The Fed is now releasing its economic forecast four times a year, rather than twice, and the new forecast looks ahead three years instead of two.
But even before the president took office, as the economy was in meltdown, his strategists, looking ahead four years, assumed that his re-election would not be easy.
Residents of Manhattan and older New Yorkers were more likely to say that, looking ahead four years, they would want to remain New Yorkers; parents of young children and African-Americans were inclined to say they would rather live outside New York City.
That is why this budget looks ahead ten years and accounts for spending that was left out under the old rules - and for the first time, that includes the full cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
