If the charter's fall from grace continues on the path of the past few years, the future of rights and liberties looks dim.
Thus, it is most likely that our letters will vanish within a few years, leaving future generations without many of the details of our fascinating era.
Sick lit, thick lit and taking the mick lit never really caught on, but for a febrile few years the future looked like belonging to "twit lit", in which the reader could have the constant musings of Stephen Fry injected directly into their bloodstream.
Schmidt also underscored a theme that's grown increasingly apparent over the last few years: the future of computing is mobile.
I wonder if in a few years' time, Future People will be all, "Can you believe they willingly subjected themselves to radiation without studying its effects?" Wi-Fi risks in schools 'must be reviewed' [Telegraph].
And judging by France's weakness, Britain's ambivalence and southern Europe's debt problems, for the next few years Europe's future will continue to be disproportionately "Made in Germany".Outside Germany this dominance has become the subject of lively debate.
Lord Deben, chosen by David Cameron to head the independent Committee on Climate Change, told The Independent on Sunday that politicians risk delaying difficult decisions over the environment and that a reliance on gas in the short term will mean gas-fired powered stations approved over the next few years will dictate future policy.
"If what you want is to deliver on leaving the European Union, and have frictionless trade in goods at the border for the next few years until a future free-trade agreement comes into force, and have control of our own immigration policy, and keep the United Kingdom together, all at the same time — well, then, a deal is going to look pretty much like this one seems to look like.
"If what you want is to deliver on leaving the European Union, and have frictionless trade in goods at the border for the next few years until a future free trade agreement comes into force, and have control of our own immigration policy, and keep the United Kingdom together, all at the same time -- well, then, a deal is going to look pretty much like this one seems to look like.
