what is the future?

Answer 1

The expectation of what may be.

Answer 2

The future is a reflection of the past.

Answer 3

Hmmmm. The future is what is ahead of us, like, it could be a second away, or a million years, but there wont be anything in a million years, cause we'll all be dead from global warming! ha ha...not funny

Answer 4

any time after the present. An hour from now. Tomorrow. Next week. Next year. Etc etc.

Answer 5

"Definitions of future on the Web:

* yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"
* effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"
* the time yet to come
* future(a): coming at a subsequent time or stage; "the future president entered college at the age of 16"; "awaiting future actions on the bill"; "later developments"; "without ulterior argument"
* future(a): (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president"
* a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
* bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
* a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* In a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the timeline that is still to occur, i.e. the place in space-time where lie all events that still have not occurred. In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future

* A futures contract is a form of forward contract, a contract to buy or sell an asset of any kind at a pre-agreed future point in time, that has been standardised for a wide range of uses. It is traded on a futures exchange. Futures may also differ from forwards in terms of margin and delivery requirements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_(finance)

* Agreement whereby two parties negotiate standard contracts representative of products (although they do not negotiate these) at a price and a date stipulated beforehand.
www.gruposantander.com/pagina/indice/0,,619_3_2,00.html

* tense is a compound form made of the particle ще and present tense (ще уча "I will study"); negation is expressed by the construction няма да and present tense (няма да уча "I will not study");
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com/s/b/Bulgarian_language

* An exchange-standardized contract for the purchase or sale of a commodity at a future date.
www.sia.com/capitol_hill/html/glossary.html

* in a conceptual stage, anticipated, or in the earliest stages of development;
www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20040831/nichsr/ta101/ta10104.html

* A legally binding contract to deliver/take delivery on a specified date of a given quality and quantity of a commodity at an agreed price.
www.oup.com/uk/booksites/content/0199267529/student/glossary.htm

* A future is a contract to buy or sell a standard quantity of a given instrument, at an agreed price, on a given date.
www.fhlb.com/Glossary.html

* Similar to the past, also this is a concept in our minds, not something in our environment.
www.intelligent-systems.com.ar/intsyst/misuse.htm

* Odds posted in advance on the winners of various major events including the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Stanley Cup, and the NBA Championship. This is always a straight bet.
www.sportingbetusa.com/2.html

* Futures Contract.
www.meff.com/ing/institute/glosari/glosari.htm

* Futures contract is an exchange-traded derivative instrument. It is an agreement to purchase an underlying asset at an agreed price on a specified future date. Futures are actively traded for such underliers as commodities, Eurodollar deposits, baskets of stocks and Treasury bonds.
www.harperrisk.com/ArtGlossary/ArtGlosseg.htm

* "Future" means an agreement traded on a futures exchange to make or take delivery of or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, level, performance or value of one or more underlying interests. [1999, c. 715, §8 (new).]
janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/24-A/title24-Asec1151-A.html

* Contract covering the sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity exchange.
www.efgi.com/glossary/f.html

* A light weight process that is created to evaluate an expression. The master process initially only gets a future (a kind of placeholder) as the value of the expression. The future gets replaced by the real value when the real value has been evaluated. Originally proposed by R. Halstead in 1985. In this research futures are only used for shared memory references.
www.cs.joensuu.fi/pages/penttonen/parallel/fpram/definitions.html

* used for actions which have not yet taken place, but will do so at some point: He will write the letter tomorrow
encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Latin_grammar "

Taken from:
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-16,GGGL:en&defl=en&q=define:future&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Answer 6

nobody knows exactly what lies ahead, but scientists and experts have become excellent at predicting future weather, technology, population, etc.

Answer 7

A place where we STILL don't have flying cars and robot butlers.

Answer 8

existance beyond the present

Answer 9

time was invented by man so that he didnt have to do everything at once.

Answer 10

Only God knows.