Norquist, for his part, argued that the economy would be doing even better if spending had been cut even further.
But even the government acknowledges that more must be done, including further changes to pensions.
Other companies such as Japan's Olympus are also experimenting with smart goggles and there is much interesting work being done to shrink displays even further, as Babbage has noted elsewhere.
In the real world, however, you may well choose to delay your start-date again.In a 1999 paper* on the economics of procrastination, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin pointed out that people are often unrealistically optimistic about their own future likelihood of doing things—such as exercise or saving that involve costs at the time they are done, but whose benefits lie even further ahead.
Mark Petchey, Murray's former coach, is slightly more diplomatic, saying it's not in the player's DNA to quit, even if he is doing himself further damage.
Reality's problems and daily media already continue to batter us with the consequences of global warming or bioengineered weapons, yet little is done to resolve or even prevent further problems so that the rest of civilization can at least begin to develop a more optimistic sense of what our future has to offer.
To take it even further, when RG3 was done with his rookie season, his statistical comparables included Michael Vick, Cam Newton, and Rich Gannon - all long-time starters in the league, each with multiple top-10 seasons.
I further argue that I'm not even sure that it is done at all in many cases.
How often do you get so caught up in the day-to-day trials of life that you forget what you were doing this time last week, last year or even further back?
