He brought Fermat to the near future and ate future bagels, which are "much puffier and much more moist," according to the madman, than the bagels of today.
There are also tiny errors that make a reader suspicious of Morton's rigor, as when he presents Cruise's notorious joke about eating his future child's placenta as a sober statement of fact, or when he identifies the '80s new-wave group Bow Wow Wow as a "hip-hop band".
We are, as Paul Krugman said in The New York Times on Monday, are eating our future.
That we might literally be eating our future through unsustainable agriculture and diets that destroy our wild and wonderful spaces?
As still many studies do not include a focus on the context effects of an eating situation, future research will need to bridge the gap between different types of satiety research to get empirical supported understanding of the working mechanisms in real life.
To learn more about Prince Charles' views on the food we eat the future we face, read The Prince's Speech, available here: http://www.rodaleinc.com/products/books/princes-speech-future-food.
Joseph Esposito Bedford, Mass., Feb. 11, 2011 To the Editor: Re "Eat the Future," by Paul Krugman (column, Feb. 14): The mere mention of the deficit gives me a headache.
"By now, only a few people refuse to understand that youth protests aren't a protest against the university reform, but against a general situation in which the older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones," he recently told Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper.
It's about all of us, the food that we eat, the future of our environment, and our health.
Every form of activism I've engaged in has meant nothing the war's still happening, the banks continue to eat our future, and gays are only people in a handful of states.
