Fast Forward Futures

"Fast Forward Futures' global report 'When the Stars Fall' is one of the most original pieces of work to come across my desk in a long time. In terms of range, breadth, and sheer ambition, I can think of few equivalents. It said it would tell me what I didn't know, and it did."

Corporate Affairs Director, global energy group

"Erudite, wide-ranging, clear, and incisive, When the Stars Fall is not afraid of making bold predictions. This is a text for our time, and every leader would benefit from its perspectives on geopolitics, business, social affairs, and more."

Backbench MP

"An old joke says consultants borrow your watch to tell you the time, then charge you for the privilege. Not these guys. Fresh, forthright, provocative, and knowledgeable: if you can only choose one team to speak about the future, Fast Forward Futures would get my vote."

Corporate HQ Director, major US private company

“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of a hundred years, teach the people.”
Confucius (approx. 551-479 BC)

“Only the dead have seen the end of war”
Plato (approx. 428-348 BC)

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you must, with the same weapons of reason that today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)

“Never make predictions, especially about the future. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95)

“In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.”
Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888)

"The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find we have lost the future.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1955)

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