Sublime

What will people want and need in this future? What kinds of people will be particularly useful in this future? How will you use your unique strengths to help others in this future?

By being willing to consider just how strange things might get, we reduce the risk of being shocked by our future, and we increase our ability to shape it.

Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future’ (quoted Mumford 1922: 22). Before the nineteenth century, the future was rarely understood as a very different place, as an undiscovered country.

exploration of what the future could be like, based on things that are already true today.

The map we follow into the future is like a picture puzzle with many of the pieces missing. You can see the rough outline of one pattern over here, and another there, but there are great gaps and you can’t quite make the connections. And then one day someone pours out another set of pieces on the table, and suddenly the pattern pops into focus. The

Now, before, or even his future somehow?