Preamble Kingdom Come By Lewis H. Lapham The present is short and the future is doubtful—only the past is certain. More
Essay Buying Tomorrow By Jennifer Szalai The future has become a financial fetish, sliced into probable outcomes to be calculated and bet upon. More
Essay Trust Issues By Paul Collins Compound interest can help save for the future, or it can bankrupt the world. More
Essay Quack Prophet By Colin Dickey The prophecies of Nostradamus were cryptic and garbled—but they also let us see what we wanted to see. More
Essay Magical Thinking By Ben Tarnoff Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward presented a twentieth century that was free of nineteenth-century drudgery. More
Essay The Next Future By John Crowley Any prediction about what is to come runs the risk of being more about the present than the future. More
Essay Apocalypse Now By Tom Holland At the close of the first millennium, it seemed assured that the end of the world was nigh. More
