And faced with the knowledge that humanity would cease to exist soon after your death, would you still be motivated to have children?
What kinds of computers may exist soon?
You may also wind up spending a lot of money on lawyers, accountants and appraisers to avoid estate taxes that might not exist soon.
"Internet kiosks are providing an expensive hardware solution to a problem that won't exist soon," says Patrick Meehan, a research director with the Framingham, Mass.-based firm IDC.
In Iceland, the possibilities of the utilisation of geothermal power were close at hand in the Reykjavík area and many other towns around the country, because the distribution system already existed, and soon other areas followed.
Mendelssohn writes: "One might simply recall, from the first principles of metaphysics, that a subject matter actually exist as soon as everything determinable in it is in fact determined, that is to say, as soon as everything determinable in it is in fact determined… Herein lies the characteristic difference between general possible concepts and real individuals.
In his 1981 book "Camera Lucida," written after the death of his mother, the French writer Roland Barthes described photography as an "imperious sign of my future death" and a record of the "anterior future," in which something that exists will soon be a thing "that-has-been".
"Chrysler as we know it will cease to exist very soon," says Kimberly Rodriguez, principal of Grant Thornton's automotive practice, who predicted a deal could happen before the Nov. 4 election.
But try breathing and you'll know they exist as soon as the air hits your nose, eyes and throat.
Have you found yourself thinking that, wow, this place where I spent over twenty years might not even exist sometime soon?
