"Day 1, Day 2... Everything is so well foreseen," he says.
What's going on now, however, is beyond that: the "financial accelerator," with deleveraging causing a credit crunch that forces further deleveraging, and now threatens to produce a sort of pancake collapse of the whole system, was not, I think, so widely foreseen.
All this was made possible only by an improbable series of events so ill foreseen by the myopic peacemakers in Paris: the arrival of a Polish pope as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in October 1978; the arrival of a reformist Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev; and, of course, the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the final symbolic end to communism and Soviet rule in Eastern Europe.
So I foresee tailored diets becoming more common.
So he foresees a move towards larger aircraft and reduced frequencies.
This is likely to be in the form of a cocktail, so I foresee plenty of different flavours.
Even so, he foresees the level of the nation's debt held by the public rising from 58.7percentt in the current year to 67.2percentt in a decade, a level not seen since 1951.
So expansive is his vision that it includes not just the piers and sails and reeling gulls but everyone else who makes the crossing: all those who stood at the railing watching before his birth, all those watching around him now, and all those who will be there watching after his death — which, in the poem, he doesn't so much foresee as, through a wild, craning omniscience, look back on.
Also, Superman can shuttle back and forth between cities with ease, so I foresee a battle between Batman and Superman taking place on the Dark Knight's turf before the two team up and return to Metropolis to confront Lex Luthor.
Why can't I remember it?" And this idea of spreading video instantly and virally is something he never could have foreseen, so I think there is a 20-year-old understanding of the media that is now on display when we watch that.
