Can you predict the future?

But the process itself is without purpose, without foresight, without design.

But the EU has suffered from a surfeit of vision and a deficit of practical budgetary measures.

It is easy, of course, to talk about the importance of looking ahead, but it is not always easy to act.

The Human Genome Project is often cited as an example of foresight and investment in the future.

What we need, I believe, is greater foresight on the part of those who are guiding the world apos s destiny.

Gregor, behind his door, nodded eagerly, rejoicing over this unanticipated foresight and frugality.

Without patience and foresight, Bell Labs could not have reaped the tremendous long term benefits of these breakthroughs.

I am confident that his wealth of experience and his keen insight will ensure that these will be very productive meetings.

There he learned the art of political (and personal) survival, but lost his vision and his love for risk taking.

Let us draw inspiration from the vision and enthusiasm of the people who drafted the Charter of the United Nations 50 years ago.

So as you send a movement command down, you tap a copy of that off and run it into your neural simulator to anticipate the sensory consequences of your actions.

Technical efforts are required in order to grasp and anticipate the rules under which interactions and information flow unfold in the virtual reality.

That process should proceed with the sense of urgency and vision with which the undeniably constructive quot Agenda for Peace quot has been promoted.

It is the most opportune time, on the threshold of a new millennium, to take stock of what we have achieved, and where we have failed, with a sense of realism and vision.

I also wish to congratulate him on his vision, so lucidly expressed in his report, quot An Agenda for Peace. quot

The point is that preventive care is all important in avoiding bad surprises, and in the area of foresight the IMF has been strictly useless, if not worse.

In Washington, barely a month ago today, leaders of two great peoples, men of magnificent courage and foresight, seized such an opportunity for the Israelis and Palestinians.

He considered the agreement between the two visionary leaders as marking the most vital breakthrough for the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement of the conflict in the Middle East.

This requires the United Nations to be vigilant about foreseeing the appropriate guarantees and precautionary measures needed to ensure the smooth conduct of the different phases of the political process.

For 30 years, East Asians have received the ample rewards of Adam Smith s insight that free trade would bring material benefits to participating countries.

However, since I am neither given to divine revelations nor blessed with the gift of clairvoyance, my vision must be based on a few random observations of recent world events.

A recent study by India s Strategic Foresight Group entitled The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East suggested that the past 20 years of conflict have cost WANA countries some 12 trillion.

The countries of the region and their partners will need to devote greater attention to ensuring the overall consistency of these strategic frameworks, and must link them to a long term approach allowing for preventive action in the areas of poverty reduction and land degradation.

For all of these reasons we would like once again to express our admiration and gratitude to all those who foresaw, and those who helped to build, a modern and universal law of the sea.

Properly read, our fears can offer us something as precious as our favorite works of literature a little wisdom, a bit of insight and a version of that most elusive thing the truth.

In France, the debate has stalled altogether due to bitter distributive conflicts, deep division within the Left, and the Right's absence of an economic and social vision.

Al Gore s Nobel Peace Prize is a fitting tribute to a world leader who has been prescient, bold, and skillful in alerting the world to the dangers of manmade climate change.

The United Nations may not possess the clairvoyance to predict events before they occur, but it should have the capacity to respond to developments and crises rapidly and effectively as they arise.

The countries of the region and their partners will need to devote greater attention to ensuring the overall consistency of these strategic frameworks, and link them to a long term view offering possibilities of preventive action in the field of poverty reduction and land degradation.

Over the long years, they had developed the conviction that Gregor was set up for life in his firm and, in addition, they had so much to do nowadays with their present troubles that all foresight was foreign to them.

My wife is a most wonderful woman...' He sighed, remembering his relations with his wife then after a minute's pause he continued 'She has the gift of clairvoyance.

I want to talk to you a little bit about why the visions of Jeremy Rivkins, who would like to ban these sorts of technologies, or of the Bill Joys who would like to relinquish them, are actually to follow those paths would be such a tragedy for us.