Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

Listening to the voices allows Corum to pass to the other world, which is in fact the distant future.

The stories of the Dying Earth series are set in the distant future, at a point when the sun is almost exhausted and magic has reasserted itself as a dominant force.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

A juvenile novel set in the distant future whose title character discovers an unsuspected Martian civilization deep beneath the Red Planet's surface.

Many of her devices, however, simply give a futuristic gloss to the daily life of the distant future, as she shows characters performing ordinary tasks with unexpected tools ( e. g. sonic laundry or toilets ).

The Confluence trilogy, set in an even more distant future ( about ten million years from now ), is one of a number of novels to use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory ( that the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness ) as one of its themes.

The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.

The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available.

Money had to exhaust its " historic mission " ( continue to be used until it became redundant ), and then would be transformed into bookkeeping receipts for statisticians, and only in the more distant future would it might not be required even for that role.

Conversations split screen sometimes showed flashbacks of the recent or distant past juxtaposed with the present ; moments imagined or hoped by the characters juxtaposed with present reality ; present experience fractured into more than one emotion for a given line or action, showing an actor performing the same moment in different ways ; and present and near future actions juxtaposed to accelerate the narrative in temporal overlap.

By his own native capacity, alike unformed and unsupplemented by study, he was at once the best judge in those sudden crises which admit of little or of no deliberation, and the best prophet of the future, even to its most distant possibilities.

Another one of the earliest known stories to involve traveling forward in time to a distant future was the Japanese tale of " Urashima Tarō ", first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

However, the projection of the myth does not take place towards the remote past, but either towards the future or towards distant and fictional places, imagining that at some time of the future, at some point of the space or beyond the death must exist the possibility of living happily.

* Always Coming Home ( 1985 ), by Ursula K. Le Guin, a combination of fiction and fictional anthropology about a society in California in the distant future.

* In City of Illusions, Earth has suffered some sort of collapse in a distant future, losing contact with the stars.

Bishop was a time-traveler from a distant future, where he and Shard were members the X-Men descendants, Xavier's Security Enforcers.

Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.

Some see the limits of the law as being far in the distant future.

The likelihood of collision in the distant future is considered to be very small.

During the 1990s, Voyager 1 overtook the slower deep-space probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 to become the most distant manmade object from Earth, a record that it will keep for the foreseeable future.

Humanoid robots, especially with artificial intelligence algorithms, could be useful for future dangerous and / or distant space exploration missions, without having the need to turn back around again and return to Earth once the mission is completed.

In the distant future, the Emperor of Mankind creates twenty Primarchs, genetically engineered superhumans possessing immense physical and psychic power.

Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that Francisco Pizarro met with the Chinchas who had traditions of a distant home across the sea.

In other instances where there is no automatic block signaling, the distant has only green and yellow aspects.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

So obvious are these advantages that nearly 95 per cent of the population of New York State now has access to a system, and enthusiastic librarians foresee the day, not too distant, when all the libraries in the state will belong to a co-op.

That animals and humans are more altruistic towards close kin than to distant kin and non-kin has been confirmed in numerous studies across many different cultures.

It has been compared with the great series of the distant past, such as 1894 – 95 and 1902.

Alberta has a small internal market and is relatively distant from major world markets, despite good transportation links to the rest of Canada and to the United States to the south.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

While this might suggest that the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Copernican principle requires us to interpret it as evidence for the evolution of the Universe with time: this distant light has taken most of the age of the Universe to reach and shows us the Universe when it was young.

There is a dispute as to whether " brother " means someone who has the same father and mother, or a half-brother or cousin or more distant familial relationship.

In his other work Etymologies, there are also affirmations that the sphere of the sky has earth in its center and the sky being equally distant on all sides.

This effect has been confirmed by observing the light of stars or distant quasars being deflected as it passes the Sun.

Evidence for the early appearance of galaxies was found in 2006, when it was discovered that the galaxy IOK-1 has an unusually high redshift of 6. 96, corresponding to just 750 million years after the Big Bang and making it the most distant and primordial galaxy yet seen.

The popularity of Islamist parties has declined to the point that " the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5 % of the vote "

It has practical importance because, among other functions, it influences radio propagation to distant places on the Earth.

Iceman has also been able to move rapidly to another distant location while in his organic ice form, being able to deposit his bodily mass into a river and reconstitute his entire mass a great distance away in a matter of minutes ( by temporarily merging his molecules with those of the river ).

Notable stories of this type include " Painwise ", in which a space explorer has been altered to be immune to pain but finds such an existence intolerable, and " A Momentary Taste of Being ", in which the true purpose of humanity, found on a distant planet, renders individual human life entirely pointless.

This inaccessibility has historically limited the ability of any government to maintain a presence in areas distant from the national or provincial capitals and has limited interchange and communication among villages and ethnic groups.

Robotic surgery has been touted as a solution to underdeveloped nations, whereby a single central hospital can operate several remote machines at distant locations.

In some places ( Enfield, Hillingdon and Havering ) the Greater London boundary has been realigned to the M25 for minor stretches ; while in others, most notably in Essex and Surrey, it is many miles distant.

It has six sets of chromosomes, two sets from each of three different diploid species that are its distant ancestors.

This manifests itself almost like an " atmosphere of dust ", visible as a thin haze and blurring of distant features, and visible as a dim glow after the sun has set.