"The centrepiece of Keynes's theory", he writes, "is the existence of inescapable uncertainty about the future".Uncertainty is different from risk, as Frank Knight, an economist, first pointed out in 1921.
Yet the deal Virgin struck with Delta last week, forming a joint venture on transatlantic routes that will (with competition clearance) see the airlines feeding each other's passengers into their own network, is a tacit admission that Walsh's vision of the future is inescapable.
It seemed less paranoid than apropos that a character calls internet-connected cell phones – barely around in 2001 – "a total Web of surveillance, inescapable … handcuffs of the future".
This year's theme, "Planning our Urban Future," reflects the inescapable facts that life in the 21st century will be markedly more metropolitan and interdependent.
Thus, in the near future, it seems inescapable to spread care, which is, as our findings showed, problematic since until now, practice nurses in Germany are only marginally involved in patient care.
The back-to-the-future threads are inescapable because the Cosmos once also called Hofstra home, long before the team ended up in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., playing to packed houses before it all came crumbling down after the 1984 season.
This delay means that for some species, future effects may be inescapable.
For General Motors, divided into its "Old" and "New" halves, there's an inescapable paradox: the only possible route to future profitability is to create, through plant closings, monuments to past unprofitability.
"Somewhere in the future, each of us has an inescapable appointment with irresistible force," Mead writes.
Indeed, as Mr. Ruiz gazed out on the quiet, well-ordered grounds of his Dresden factory and reminisced excitedly about his first visit to China in the 1980's, the future of the chip industry seemed inescapable.
