# Powerful precise writing can influence the future Powerfully written visions have actually shaped actions in the future * [[bushScienceEndlessFrontier1945]] * [[The Communist Manifesto]] * [[bushWeMayThink1945]] * [[lickliderManComputerSymbiosis1960]] * Software is Eating the World It is also possible that we over index on writing as a tool for shaping the future. Overindexing could happen in two ways - one is that the writing just happens to capture the zeitgeist and things would have happened anyway, the other is that the inspiration is added post-hoc.