Sentence examples for envisaging the future from inspiring English sources

Among his strengths was a gift for envisaging the future.

This world Gibson constructed had as much to say about 1980s society, which was still caught up in the fallout of the Cold War and the increasing threat of nuclear destruction, as it did about envisaging the future.

Improbable though it all may seem, this is how some imaginative types in the US military are envisaging the future of Baghdad's Green Zone, the much-pummelled redoubt of the Iraqi capital where a bunker shot has until now had very different connotations.

Envisaging the future does not create the future per se, but it may influence the way people perceive it, and ultimately perform in the actual constitution of reality.

Envisaging the future largely depends on how one understands the past and interprets the present.

The future will be like the present, only worse In the 1960s and 70s, many sci-fi movies envisaged the future as a sterile utopia.

I'm biased, because I wrote on it, but the Winning Formula project, which envisaged the future of data and sport in 2018, was great as well.

Marin Alsop, its music director, who on 7 September will become the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms, challenged students to envisage the future of orchestral performance, arguing that rethinking performance attire "is only 200 years overdue".

The third example envisages the future as opposite to or at least quite different from today's society, labelling the mini-scenario «Alice in an equal wonderland».

Both systems look forward to study trends and envisage the future (events/generations), which is a key procedure to design strategies for risk mitigation and emergency planning.

We will need to concentrate on the segment of attention defined under the narrower heading of «early detection» (of changes to come), encompassing such typical and well documented methodologies as 'weak signal' analysis, 'early warning' assessment or 'early detection' of changes, and more recently, 'seeds of change'[7] to envisage the future European addiction and lifestyle scene.