I time-traveled, in my imagination, to a future of canal-front cafes, walkways and even Gowanus gondolas.
Imaginations of a better future, associated among earlier generations with a faith in modernization and societal development (Parkin 1978; Stichter 1982; Cooper 1983; Burton 2002), have been reduced to the search for a livelihood, amidst the decline of urban infrastructures and the fragmentation of stable frameworks of nationhood and collective progress (Francis 1995; Prince 2005).
This stage, spanning from 22 to 33 years, represents a delicate phase of transition and life development [4] in which the imagination of the future plays a key role, because it might determine a young person's feelings, thoughts, and behaviours [38].
Orientation by considerations on the future was and is often introduced in a way as if the imagination of future developments could create a reliable framework which reduces the openness of the future considerably.
In the imagination of the future, this distinction probably exists, since a person can avoid imagining because of the negative quality of the images that come to the mind, or can repress the imagination to avoid memory overload and a sense of confusion.
They call this speculative fiction, but it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to envision a future where submissive women are regulated to sexual slavery as cis white men serve as their masters that's our past right?
All of the volunteers took a battery of tests, including probes of autobiographical memory and imagination of the future.
A new Selected Poems, published by Penguin this month, takes in work from Night-Crossing up to last year's Harbour Lights, which won Mahon the Irish Times poetry prize and was acclaimed for its "wonderful flexibility and tonal command, drawing on a range of literary cultures in its commentary on the present and its imagination of the future".
Relatively few empirical studies have addressed the psychological dimensions involved in the imagination of the future.
