Sentences with phrase «decades away»

Although we're probably still decades away from computers that can read our thoughts (which would be frightening), Google is offering the next best thing: shopping by voice using Google Assistant on the Google Home via Google Express.

«However, we are in the early days of the electric vehicle and likely two or more decades away from autonomous vehicles for consumers,» he told the E-Commerce Times, «even though many, like Elon Musk, have much more aggressive predictions for autonomous vehicles.»

If you're still decades away from retirement and trying to save for multiple college educations, your financial plan is necessarily going to have to be completely different than hers.

Younger people, and even middle - aged adults, often feel that buying life insurance is an unnecessary expense, especially when the threat of death is likely decades away.

After all life insurance is a long term purchase, and it is important that the coverage be in place when it is needed most, even if that date is many decades away.

The NPS locks up your money for a lengthy period of time, until retirement, which could be decades away.

Given that women's participation in the profession (thirty - seven percent) is still decades away from equaling that of men and that women have stalled at around twenty percent of partners (17 % for equity and 23 % for income partners) for many years now, it is clear that women still have a very long way to go to mirror the gender equality that law schools have enjoyed for over twenty years.

Given that women's participation in the profession (thirty - seven percent) is still decades away from equaling that of men and that women have stalled at around twenty percent of... [more]

Using words like could have «profound» impact, and the open door allowed by saying the projected future impacts are several decades away plays directly into the precautionary principle used by so many global warming advocates.

Of course, it's not cool Especially not when so - called clean coal technologies are decades away at best, and retrieving the stuff from the ground creates an environmental nightmare like no other.

Bio-energy and solar photovoltaic solutions (including space - based systems) are feasible and probably competitively scalable to the level needed; fusion may also be but a practical reactor is still decades away.

Smart grids and economic storage are billions of dollars and decades away.

Where this seems to be going for me is that the IPCC use M&K 2012 as the one alternative method for calculating that the Year X is likely to be decades away.

We talk of SeptSIE reaching 1M sq km by Year X and balk at the IPCC when they say this Year X will be decades away.

Some Perspective: More Than Clean Energy Needed And while it may be tempting to breathe easy in thinking that such an abundant source of non-carbon emitting energy is two decades away, we also need to be thinking more holistically.

One thing I've learnt from decades inside boardrooms, is that, by and large, oil, coal and gas companies live in an analytical bubble, deluded about their immortality and firm in their beliefs that «renewables are decades away from competing» and «we are so cheap and dominant the economy depends on us» and «change will come, but not on my watch».

Although an entirely ice - free Arctic Ocean during at least one week a year is still several decades away at this rate, we are halfway there after just three decades.

Grunwald resoundingly endorses starting with efficiency, including incentives to utilities for «negawatts;» a different path for the developing world; and he says, «In the medium term, the world needs plug - in electric cars, the only plausible answer to humanity's oil addiction that isn't decades away.»)

According to the IPCC — all warming since 1951 is anthropogenic and a 2 degree C calamity is decades away.

But these are long shot ideas, decades away at best, and few in Germany will now look at nuclear.

It is clear that models pretend to a maturity of both hardware and software that is decades away — it is also clear that the yokels buy into the kool - aid.

However, given current support for fusion, commercializing this power source remains decades away.

However, given current support for fusion, commercializing fusion power remains decades away.

But the reality is we're still decades away from commercial fusion reactors.

But if they perceive climate change as mostly a threat to future generations — if significant sea - level rises seem to be decades away — they are unlikely to have a sense of urgency.

But if you want to think it, it's still decades away, no matter how you cut it.

In subsequent posts I will show that resource limitations are just decades away, not centuries, and that the scramble for resources will increase demand for fossil fuel energy.

The decline in oil demand and the fall in oil company stock prices remain decades away.

That breakthrough in storage power is probably decades away.

Alternative energy fuel sources, truly fuel - efficient vehicles and distribution systems to make electricity or fuel made with ethanol or switchgrass are, realistically speaking, at least two decades away.

Now it's thought that storing carbon dioxide underground on a large scale is decades away.

Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away.

So, the nuclear solution is two decades away, and then they will risk being more expensive than alternative which will reduce costs in the four decades between now and when new nuclear power plants will still have two decades of debt service on labor costs for building nuclear two to three decades earlier.

Possibly decades away, if ever.

In a 2004 report, the National Academy of Sciences said such a transition was probably decades away.

And another grand minimum is likely to be just decades away, based on the cooling spiral of recent solar cycles....

In 1969, with the internet still a couple of decades away, Allan Kaprow, the conceptual artist and inventor of the happening, mounted an event called Hello, in which different groups of artists and scientists in different locations could communicate on banks of television screens and yell «I see you» at each other across the ether.

When you get your first job as a junior designer, the idea of leading a team, as an art director, creative director or even CEO, can seem decades away; something that «grown ups» do.

Moreover, at the dawn of the twentieth century, the modern museum was decades away.

Sadly, in these circumstances, the resources needed to provide surgery is decades away from being available for millions of street animals.

The work of Gregor Mendel was still undiscovered, and even when it was discovered (around 1900) a true understanding of the nature of negative recessive genes was many decades away.

If anybody even were to come up with cheap testing of such polygenic traits, this approach is still decades away.

There was no internet, no mobile phone network, less than 50 % of households had a landline phone and car ownership for all was decades away.

By piggybacking on rabies vaccination programs, this vaccine could provide population control in places where high - volume surgical sterilization for dogs and cats is still decades away, or even in places where dogs and cats are viewed as vermin and providing medical care to them may not be considered valuable.

Even if retirement is decades away for you, this subject nonetheless repeatedly tops the list of Americans» economic fears in Gallup's annual Financial Worry metric.

Of course, one doesn't save so linearly, it's tough to get a twenty year old thinking about saving for a retirement that's decades away.

When it's decades away, retirement is hard to really visualize.

I know that you may question how this applies to you as you might be two, three or four decades away from retirement, and the thought of preparing for something so far off seems unnecessary.

The low yields imply that most of the capital, even for someone who is very young and decades away from a goal such as retirement, must come from savings.

If you're a 45 - year - old who is saving for a retirement that's two decades away, the consequences wouldn't be particularly dire and, in fact, it could be helpful, because your monthly savings will buy shares at cheaper prices.