"I expect to eventually have hundreds of these on London's roads, and for cities around the globe to be beside themselves with envy for our stunning red emblem of 21st century London".
And so last weekend I visited the Basic Income Createathon held, appropriately enough, at Brigade in San Francisco to witness the early stirrings of a movement whose central goal may seem strange and radical … but which I expect to eventually transform the life of billions.
The typical first response of Trial Two volunteers about why they stayed in the clinical trial was their expectation of medical advances from the trial: I expect we will eventually get a drug that will cure us, and I will get cured myself.
I expect we will eventually come to terms with this and learn to live with it.
I no longer expect to see boot prints on Mars during my lifetime, nor do I expect that whoever eventually makes those boot prints will be drawing a paycheck from NASA, or even speaking English.
Moreover, Microsoft offers an additional 50% discount to any customer that dumps IBM, Oracle, Sybase or Informix to switch to SQL. "I expect they'll eventually give it away," grumbles Robert Finocchio, Informix chief executive.
You can hook up multiple iPads to the same design to collaborate, and I expect they'll eventually let users add and customize a personal palette of input/editing options.
I expect AI to eventually embrace my laws, and all the challenging, coldly rational ideas in TEF.
(Female volunteer aged 40, Trial Two) I expect we will eventually get a drug that will cure us, and I will get cured myself.
Eventually, I expect nature did most of it".
