i doubt that the world of your lives will be less cluttered with changes, conflicts, and manned made solutions. that it will be fraught with its share of confusions and competitions. , nor anyone in this room, knows exactly what will confront you or exactly what the world will look like for you all. but those who raised and nurtured us did. but those who raised and nurtured us did not and could not know that we would live in the world that we live in today. the world of self driving cars, robots, and remotely controlled drones. it was for them, and for us, a world of fantasy and cartoons, like the jetsons. a few months ago, my wife and i were talking with one of our favorite priest. things that has mystified me during my tenure on the court, which now approaches 30 years, was the fact that his father, justice scalia and i were from very different backgrounds, but we agreed on so much and trusted each other implicitly. .e saw so much the same way before i arrived at the court in 1991, i had ever met him. so we had no prior relationship. he was from new jersey and i from south georgia.