Looking into the next five years:

• There will be cannabis drinks.
• 3-D printing will include appliances and even vehicles.
• Cars will communicate directly with highways and adjust for road conditions, accidents, detours, etc.
• Fur clothing sales will be banned.
• There will be an oral contraceptive for men and women to be taken before or after.
• Electric vehicle terrorism will commence: deliberate crashes, kidnappings, theft.
• An extinct animal (probably a Wooly Mammoth or Mastodon) will be cloned from preserved DNA (probably using an elephant).
• There will be only three newspapers in the US, publishing national and local editions (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today).
• China will make military advances against Taiwan.
• Human “parts” will be inserted into machines.
• Republicans will dominate the off-year elections in the US.
• A major movement, akin to the climate change movement, will gain force against raising animals for slaughter and food.
• Some smaller countries will become totally cash-free.

The trees that blossom latest in the spring seem to be the ones that also lose their leaves the fastest in the fall. I think there’s an accounting principle that says “last in, first out” (LIFO) which is used to account for inventory.

Inventory being those things that are sitting around for which, at the moment, no one has a use.

I find some people the same way. They’re the last to arrive for a meeting and the first to leave. And despite this brief tenure being the result of their own decisions, they are also quite demanding: They complain that the best seats are taken, interrupt to try to find out what they missed, ask questions already asked and answered, and ask people to send their notes of what was discussed after they depart!

The trees can’t help it, they’re merely obeying nature’s laws, but the procrastinators and the lazy can help it. They choose not to.

They choose to be inventory—last in, first out—for which no one has any use.

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