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Phrase: Down the road
Down the road is a phrase used to refer to the future.
Think about time as a road.
The road that you have already walked on is the past.
The road you are currently walking on is the present, and the road still ahead of you represents the future.
Native English speakers refer to the future as down the road but never up the road.
Self-driving cars and robotic hamburger cookers like Flippy will be commonplace down the road.
Artificial Intelligence will also be in most of the devices that we use.
Yes, if down the road, some people in Silicon Valley find a way to end senescence (a TOEIC word), we may all never die because our being or mind will be living on through AI.
The world is going to be a wonderful place in the future.
Imagine what it would be like to buy a self-driving, flying car.
Wouldn’t that be fantastic?
Some people only think about the negative things that could occur in the future.
I prefer to focus on the positive.
If we all keep working hard on our self-improvement and the improvement of our societies, surely we will make a better future for ourselves and everyone who comes after us.
Of course, it’s not all going to be positive.
We’ll have to take the good with the bad and do the best with what we have.
The main thing is to maintain a positive attitude.
If we can all do that, then I’m sure that down the road, we will all be able to achieve our goals and maybe even buy a flying car.
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