Why so little focus on possible futures?

Most people focus on the past and the present. I think it is equally important to apply what George Bernhard Shaw allegedly said:

"Most people look at the world as it is and ask: Why? What we should do is to look at the world as it could be and ask: Why not?"

We can't drive into the better future by looking only in the rear mirror, can we?

Jan Oberg, TFF