The media can help create a better reality, a future reality.
These intelligent, idiosyncratic titles pointed to a bizarre, barely conceivable future in which we won't have to jump out of planes, rob banks or shoot baddies to have a good time.
No one, after all, expects the opposition to win enough seats to form a government in the conceivable future.
The focus of our study was the description of potential scenarios and not a prediction of future realities.
Let's explore this a bit further, with the caveat that I, at least, believe that completely replacing humans with AI to do research is not a good idea, nor will it ever be in the conceivable future.
The brute reality, astronomers admit, is that even if there are thousands or millions of habitable planets in the galaxy, only a few hundred of them are within range of any telescope that will be built in the conceivable future.
It is the only conceivable future.
The only conceivable future for this campaign must be to crank up the volume.
And, in a Catholic home, the only conceivable futures for a girl were to be a nun or a nonworking mother or an elementary school teacher or a spinster caring for aging parents.
"That number is a conceivable number for some date in the future, but certainly not for 2017," said McCallum, who noted he agreed with the spirit of the recommendations.
(Good ratings in either case could mean a future as a reality series).
