When Tibetan representatives met last autumn at their Parliament in Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas, their worries about the future echoed down the corridors.
When Mr. Obama called for the cancellation of Constellation, he proposed that NASA rely much more on commercial companies in the future, echoing many of the same themes that Mr. Gingrich is advocating.
Caroline Flint, Labour's shadow energy and climate change secretary, said Conservative antipathy to renewable energy would cost the UK "the high-skilled, high-wage jobs we need for the future", echoing recent comments by Ed Davey, the Lib Dem energy secretary.
Win or lose the election these ideas will be in play, for in these deep and thoughtful essays I hear the future echo of battles yet to be fought.
It is there in the relentless pull of the future that echoes through Underworld and Cosmopolis; in the toxic clouds and designer drugs that permeate White Noise; in the panic of post-catastrophe New York in Falling Man; and in the fearful message from outer space in Ratner's Star.
[Read the rest and come back.] Here's our chat: It's clearly smart to have policies that give incentives to utilities to benefit from, and thus encourage, end-user efficiency; but this has a "back to the future" feel, echoing the norm a couple decades ago, before deregulation split the electricity generation and distribution industry in ways that killed such incentives.
Nearly a month on, my country feels unfamiliar, its howl against the future still echoing around its four nations, its politics stabilising a little, but perhaps, like Werner Herzog's boat in Fitzcarraldo, merely pausing in an isolated calm while malevolent rapids whip and pull at it.
This decrepitude leaves the well-paid Loopers looking like a future echo of the wiseguys in Grease; big fish flapping their fins over the edge of a very small pond.
A future echo of times much further down the line.
"This agreement will mortgage our future," echoed opposition legislator Margarita Stolbizer.
During the call, Clinton also said she was determined to see that country has a prosperous future, echoing comments she delivered in her concession speech.
