View the Present Differently to Predict the future Try to imagine the world in the year 2100. https://media.giphy.com/media/QPy8RAg2mR7CU/giphy.gif What do you see? For most people, the future is a tantalizing topic to think about. But what do we really mean when we talk about the future? Clearly, we don't just think of the passage of time, but the progress made during that time. This progress, that is, the differences from the present, is what really defines the future. More specifically, it can be divided into horizontal & vertical progress. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y3vYPHKt7e0?start=30&end=57