Reimagining the Future Quotes

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.