Forecast Summary:


"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning
of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the
twilight of the dawn.  It is possible to believe that all that
the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the
awakening.  We cannot see, there is no need for us to see, what
this world will be like when the day has finally come.  We are
creatures of the twilight.  But it is out of our race and lineage
that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our
littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that
will reach forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that
defeats our eyes.  All this world is heavy with the promise of
greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending
succession of days, when beginnings, beings who are now latent in
our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth
as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out
their hands amidst the stars."  (Wells, 1902)


<ffile78>   Research Towards a Future
<ffile82>   Research Areas
<ffile90>   Metaphor
<ffile91>   Integration and Differentiation
<ffile92>   Preservation: Interdisciplinary by Necessity