Hi, I'm Anne Strain Champs. Have you ever noticed how much time we spend thinking about the future?

If the mind's not doing anything important, it's going to think about the future instead.

Time kids all slipping, slipping into the future.

The future is ours to win.

The street in the grandeur, the scooping the laughter, the future, the future.

The future started covered.

We're going to be discovered.

The geeks are running everything.

It's kind of freakishly prescient.

And it's very hard to beat the dart doing chimpanzee when you're trying to predict that far out. You're going to take a walk in the rain and you're going to get wet.

I predict.

And the song will fade out.

Yes, the song will fade out.

The song will fade out. And this song will fade out, this all will fade out.

A bit.

From the weather report to political campaigns to the stock market, everything's about the future.

Predicting it, owning it, winning it.

For something that hasn't even happened yet, the future occupies an awful lot of our lives and thoughts.

But why?

Today, on to the best of our knowledge, let's find out.

Hal, why do you think we're so obsessed with the future right now?

There's a lot of reasons, but the main reason is because we perceive the present to be

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