Most people are not accustomed to looking 25 years in the future for society as a whole. While they might focus that far ahead in developing highway court orders, sore systems, or other infrastructure activities, it is hard to plan this far ahead in most areas. One way of understanding the future is to use a series of images to picture in your mind certain aspects of future. Examples should include positive and negative and is simple to understand the powerful in the ideas and concepts communicated by the images. Some examples are:

a. My 50-year old house was retrofitted to look like new houses built in the last five years. While the entire sub-division 'next door' was razed, being too expensive to retrofit, I decided to work at it slowly and with a good understanding of the return on my investment (money saved in energy costs) was worth the investment (materials and labor). The energy savings alone has allow us enough money saved to take a world to were each year, but the major effect has been in the everyday use of the new convenience items. Covering everything under voice control has made living much easier and to our home conferencing center we meet with our worldwide friends for weekly wine and cheese parties (with locally produced specialty items, including the wine and cheese).

b. When the 21st century began, I was worried about the future employment opportunities and health of my children. That was at a time when Social Security concerns were high and work was being restructured so few people have their own retirement systems or health benefits. However, as new mechanisms developed so that association with a particular company was not required to have retirement and health benefits, I found they had far better lives than I could possibly have anticipated that time. In fact, it still amazing bad things can be so personalized for individual people with the state of Arizona having twice the population in head back in 2000.