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The last of the NYT’s forecasters, Willis Whitney, was a chemist and for many years a head of the General Electrics’ Research Lab; I can feel this spirit, of more opportunistic and creative exploration in his views about the futures. He argues that we will vote not for an incremental improvements of what we know already, but rather support less predictable and more chaotic (=’bold”) experimentation. I like the ‘joy of electrically supplied home entertainment’ (I am engaged in it in this very moment, in fact). Better education, moratorium on wars, and, most importantly, pure research.