The future, such as it is, is hidden in the wiring behind the walls.
We'd like to plan for our future such as it might be".
Yet is has zero impact on the big decisions they could create that sustainable future, such as whether George Osborne's dash for gas goes ahead.
This judgment stands even though their rescue measures created some big problems for the future, such as enshrining the too-big-to-fail doctrine.
Instead, it stressed the need to educate the workforce; develop industries of the future, such as clean energy; and retrain displaced manufacturing workers.
Clark should, as Mandelson did, seek to ensure that the UK competes in the growth industries of the future, such as green tech, genomics and robotics.
Clearly this is a recipe for disaster down the road — higher taxes and interest rates and less money for investments in our future, such as education and infrastructure.
These are the perennially niggling policy questions that politicians prefer to kick into the future, such as education, infrastructure and energy sufficiency.
But more significantly, it would prevent difficult regimes from attempting power plays in the future — such as the one Iran has currently manipulated.
That fundamental doubt pertains particularly to actions that affect persons in the far future, such as the disposal of radioactive waste that remains hazardous for millennia.
Perhaps we could have launched sooner without this, but we believe it will accelerate our ability to launch on other platforms in future, such as Android.
