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  • Hello, everybody! This is Jack and Kate

  • from tofluency.com and we are back with

  • a conversation about the future so we're

  • going to talk about the future we're

  • going to look at some predictions as

  • well, discuss those different topics and

  • if it's your first time here then hit

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  • conversations about once a week and

  • it's a great way for you to practice

  • your listening and to learn new words

  • and phrases and I'll list those words

  • and phrases in the description. So, Kate and

  • Emma, welcome! Thank you! Are you optimistic for the

  • future. So, I would probably say that

  • I am,

  • well, you know me. Yeah. I'm kind of a

  • pessimist

  • yes. I try not to be but I can

  • usually see what could go wrong and I

  • worry about things sometimes but I think

  • overall actually when I think about the

  • future in a big way, I'm pretty

  • optimistic about it.

  • Yeah. What about you? I I think

  • I'm an optimist. Sometimes, it's

  • difficult when you read the news when

  • you just read some articles and they

  • talk about all the bad things that could

  • happen, you start panic you start to

  • worry about the future - things like

  • energy and transportation and food all

  • kind of resources as well like drinking

  • water

  • yeah - in in the developed world

  • and it's just... sometimes you can feel really

  • down about it but on the other hand

  • yeah I'm of the opinion that you can

  • shape your own future within reason

  • especially if you live in a place like

  • America. Yeah, definitely. There are

  • great opportunities. I feel like right

  • now it is it is harder to be optimistic

  • about the future especially in our

  • country just because the things that

  • have really given me so many

  • opportunities like public education and

  • i went to a public school for elementary

  • school and for college you know our are

  • in danger right now really in terms of

  • getting funding and that's that's kind

  • of a strange thing to consider

  • and hopefully you know we have a baby

  • here she'll be able to have the same

  • opportunities and the same future and

  • resources that that we've been able to

  • have. Yeah, I think having children really

  • makes you think more about the future

  • it makes you think about what's going

  • to happen and what you can do as well to

  • build a better future because I know

  • when we were in our twenties, we were

  • just traveling living in the moment all the time,

  • we didn't really think about the future

  • that much - we didn't think about

  • saving for the future

  • no - saving for retirement - no - that still

  • seems like a strange concept to

  • consider - it does, yeah, I've definitely

  • started thinking about that recently. Yes.

  • But what are your hopes for the future?

  • What you want to get out of what's going

  • to come? Do you mean personally? Yeah, personally. So,

  • I think that personally I would like to

  • just be able to learn more like I want I

  • want to learn more languages i want to

  • learn my entire life and so I don't know

  • that would mean going back to school in

  • a former way or just continuing to learn

  • little things and more about the things

  • that I like to do, like, I enjoy cooking

  • and I would like to be a better Baker

  • and to learn about that and I would love

  • to learn more languages and be

  • able to travel and get to practice them

  • That's great, yeah. How about you?

  • well, just to go - just to talk about

  • learning and I really got this like

  • thirst for learning - desire to learn stuff -

  • after University. Yes! I think that's pretty common.

  • me too!

  • it wasn't that I wasn't learning at

  • university but I like, you know,

  • academics and academia can be kind of a

  • bubble like you're in it and it just

  • seems like you're going to classes, you're

  • taking tests, but you don't really get

  • the big picture and then once you get

  • outside of that and you see the big

  • picture you go: wait! I wish i could just dive

  • back in and you know learn these things

  • because they're not trying to like play

  • the system to get a degree

  • really

  • thinking about you know what you want to

  • know yeah definitely and I think you

  • know we're going to talk about some

  • predictions for the future

  • one of them is education. What is education

  • going to be like? Is it all going to be

  • online? is it going to be formal in

  • universities - it's going to be interesting to

  • see what happens but yeah my hopes for

  • the future and... it's really great

  • that you brought that up you know just to

  • continue learning - a a lot of what

  • we focus on right now is our children and

  • what their future's gonna be, but I think for

  • me just to keep growing - to keep feeling

  • enthusiastic about my goals and you know

  • and what I want to achieve and just to have

  • that energy to want to improve in all

  • areas

  • yeah, absolutely, because, you know, I think it's a great

  • [baby speaking] she's telling us

  • about her goals too.I think I

  • would also like to - I know that we've

  • talked about this in other episodes but

  • I want to keep traveling too. I want to... I want to

  • want to spend at least another year of

  • our life living outside of the United

  • States and England and I'd love to take

  • you know at least a trip every year

  • where we're going somewhere new too.

  • definitely definitely. So, yeah, travel continue

  • learning and then where do you see

  • yourself in 10 years that's a really

  • good question

  • well obviously I'm going to have a new

  • world famous novel published

  • yes naturally and probably my own

  • cooking show just so you know put it out

  • there and and I don't know maybe I'll

  • also be a world-famous artist so right

  • so, small goals. Small goals.

  • step-by-step, but

  • you've wanted to write a novel for

  • a long time. Do you see yourself

  • writing one in the next ten years?

  • I think so yeah it's hard to imagine me

  • doing anything big and ambitious right

  • now and just because it's every day and

  • every night you know just taking care of

  • Thomas and Emma - our kids - and right now Miss

  • Emma the baby is getting teeth and so

  • she's awake at night so it's hard to

  • really imagine doing something so

  • ambitious but i think that i think i do

  • want to get there - yeah, once things settle down a little bit and you can throw

  • yourself into it

  • yeah absolutely and they say that

  • having kids is the longest shortest time

  • of your life so while we're talking

  • about time in the future I feel like

  • time has been going so much faster in

  • general since Emma and Thomas came into our

  • lives like every year every month every

  • week even just flies by

  • but then there are some hours that are

  • incredibly long - yeah really really long

  • really long hours, especially when we're

  • sick. Oh, yeah, which we've also talked about

  • I'll leave a link to that conversation

  • in the description if you're

  • watching on YouTube and should we talk

  • about these predictions? Yes! I want to

  • hear what the predictions are.

  • I'm pretty excited about this. You seem very excited.

  • Very excited! because there was an

  • article i came across which talks about

  • I think it was like 15 reasons to be

  • optimistic for the future

  • ok I'm an optimistic person, I feel

  • like we should look at it from a more

  • optimistic angle

  • yes, and I've just written down three. And one of them

  • might not be a positive one and we

  • might go into a bit of a conversation

  • ok - but firstly and this is for 2020

  • ok so not that far away no well when I

  • read it when it said 2020 I thought: oh, wow

  • that's really far in the future but then

  • I realized it's not it's really not - it's three

  • years from now - the first one

  • self driving and flying cars

  • okay so are we gonna talk about whether

  • we think that there is going to be true or not?

  • yeah okay and and what you think about

  • them too if you think it's positive

  • thing. If it's a positive thing.

  • this is tough. Do you want me to start? Yes because I

  • think self-driving cars that whole

  • concept is going to be incredible yeah

  • and I know a lot of people when they

  • talk about it they say oh my i want to

  • be able to drive i'm not one of those

  • people

  • yeah I want to be able to just get in a

  • car and it just goes wherever you

  • want it to go. Yeah. I think one of the

  • most amazing things that people don't

  • think about is that is going to solve the

  • parking problem

  • oh yeah. Because you don't have to get in

  • the same car it's going to be like uber

  • but basically just a self-driving car.

  • So you wouldn't have your

  • own car? No. So, everyone would

  • have... well, I think people would have

  • their own cars uh-huh - but I think this idea

  • of of there being a fleet of cars that

  • service a certain city or an area and when

  • you push a button, it picks you up

  • - this hurts my brain! - and it drives you

  • somewhere - straight to the door

  • yeah - just like Uber, but then it just goes and gets

  • the next person so I'm wondering because

  • having a car and driving places is a really

  • big part of American culture

  • exactly - and I feel like we you know you

  • are from the UK and we've lived other

  • places and driving just hasn't been that big

  • deal you - like in Spain - we didn't even have a car in Spain

  • Yeah, in Spain from our experience anyway, a

  • lot of people relied on public transport

  • yeah - we certainly did.

  • think though that people would take convenience the

  • convenience and cost. It's going to be

  • cheaper- how's it gonna be cheaper?

  • because it's like you're sharing cars.

  • uh-huh and also a lot of these cars

  • are going to be - this is another

  • prediction - but electric uh-huh solar panels

  • you know

  • yeah solar powered - you think by

  • 2020? I think self-driving cars could

  • just explode any moment

  • ok I'm not literally. No - that's really funny.

  • yeah not, no. No. Otherwise people won't

  • drive them. But what I mean by that is that

  • they will become really popular at any

  • moment - I think it could just happen

  • like that really quickly one day

  • and now, you talked about the

  • self-driving and i agree with you I

  • think that that there will be more and

  • more of that - that they'll just be safer and

  • more common but to be honest the whole

  • flying car business even though this was

  • something that we dreamed about and when you see

  • any science fiction movie like the Fifth

  • Element there are cars flying all over

  • a cityscape I just don't see flying

  • cars as being that necessary or that safe

  • well cool is one cool i mean definitely

  • cool convenient as well if they can fly

  • let's say 500 miles where you don't have

  • to deal with roads and traffic

  • well isn't that just like an airplane. Well, I know

  • but the idea is that you are in your own car

  • and then you fly and then you drive. Kind of

  • like your own airplane? Well, then when

  • you land, you can still drive.

  • Kind of like an airplane? Okay...

  • how many airplanes do you see going down

  • downtown Asheville? Fair enough. But then you

  • still need places to land these

  • airplanes and airplanes can be very

  • dangerous especially the little ones.

  • I'm gonna go ahead and say as a pessimist

  • I don't really see

  • a future for for driving or flying cars. For

  • flying cars. I think it's one of those

  • things that people talk about and one of

  • the number one things that people talk

  • about when predicting the future but

  • practically you know there's a lot to

  • work out there. I feel with self-driving cars

  • it's going to happen

  • it's going to happen yeah but flying

  • cars within you know the next to you

  • three to take 5-10 years - flying

  • cars seem a long way off. So, flying cars seem

  • like they're a ways off, I mean that's

  • that is what people do dream about with the

  • future at least

  • we did when we were little having jet packs

  • that would just zoom you around

  • personally and flying cars but but honestly

  • i think that the logistics of it would

  • be harder than okay well I feel like we

  • did not really well - the last one

  • yeah and we could talk about this

  • for hours but talking about bio fuels

  • renewable energy competing with fossil

  • fuels and there's one thing I wanted to

  • talk about well with TESLA where and how

  • what's the.. it's like they've got the solar panel roofing

  • the tiles get which can power the

  • entire house - by 2020 they're saying biofuels

  • and solar energy etc might compete with

  • fossil fuels i think that

  • that's definitely a prediction that I

  • would agree with because it just seems

  • to be clearly the way to go in the

  • future

  • yeah you know that it will cost less

  • over the long term using renewable

  • resources will be better for everyone

  • better for us to just the quality of the

  • air that we breathe and the environment

  • yes so I think that's kind of a

  • no-brainer yeah like I didn't I knew

  • that there are a lot of countries that

  • are doing a really great job already

  • with renewable resources and I think

  • that we're gonna get there

  • yeah there's a big barrier against it isn't

  • there? There's like a... what's a good word to use

  • resistance resistance against it by

  • powerful people to try and stop this

  • from happening but it just seems like

  • it's going that way more and more yeah

  • it's it seems like it's inevitable

  • yeah definitely but I mean but again

  • that's something that that seems really

  • uncertain right now just with

  • the political climate in our country

  • yeah can do this yeah I'm but then i

  • guess it once it becomes financially

  • viable - yes - and a cheap option for people

  • then that's what it really does change

  • absolutely and it doesn't need that

  • boost from the government, it doesn't need

  • subsidizing - it can just

  • go ahead yeah on its own accord.

  • absolutely yeah - well, we've reached

  • that time - already? - the best time of the

  • whole conversation

  • yes Katie asks the question - off the

  • cuff - off the cuff! -

  • so what is your question today? My

  • question is: are you optimistic or

  • pessimistic about the future? And what

  • kind of predictions do you have about

  • your life and about the world?

  • yeah in 2020 and beyond. I like that

  • yeah so predictions and if you're

  • optimistic or pessimistic again if you

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  • can get some lesson notes from this

  • lesson so thanks again for watching or

  • listening

  • we'll see you in the next conversation

  • thank you, bye. Bye Bye!

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