Table of Contents
2011 Fall
The Future
Introductory
Voices in Time
Hopes & Fears
- A Return to Nature: 2007 / New York City
- The Dying is Easy: 1778 / London
- Endgame: 1904 / Alexandria
- Futures Market: c. 1635 / Holland
- Managing the Future: 1840 / Paris
- Unwelcome Prophet: c. 1190 BC / Argos
- Daydream Believers: 1937 / California
- From Ear to Ear: 1666 / Poland
- Memory Banks: c. 2050 / United States
- Unintended Consequence: c. 370 BC / Athens
- On the Bright Side: 1919 / Oxford
- The Wolf Swallows the Sun: c. 1220 / Iceland
- Some Kind of Sun Seems to Have Set: 1882 / Sils-Maria
- War is Peace: 1984 / London
- Birthday of a New World: 1776 / Philadelphia
- Varying Interpretations: 44 BC / Rome
- Borrow the Barbarian’s Tools: 1861 / Shanghai
- Question and Answer: 1909 / Atlantic Ocean
- Life Insurance: 1718 / Adrianople
- School Ties: 1899 / Tuskegee, AL
- End of History: 1944 / Auschwitz
- And One More for the Road: c. 1798 / Germany
- New Men and Old: 1862 / Russia
- Never Shall We Cease to Exist: c. 100 / India
- P. D. James Reviews the End: 2021 / Oxford
- All in Good Time: 1841 / Ockham
- Making Good on a Promise: 1963 / Washington, DC
Predictions
- Ray Kurzweil Describes Man's Fate: 2005 / Massachusetts
- Blind Fate: c. 429 BC / Thebes
- Forecast: 1865 / San Francisco
- Stormy with a Chance of Locusts: c. 95 / Patmos
- Furor Teutonicus: 1835 / Paris
- H. G. Wells Travels in Time: 802701 / London
- The Future Was Closer Then: 1903 / Paris
- The Future Is Not Yet: c. 397 / Hippo
- John Kenneth Galbraith Tells It Like It Is: 1958 / Cambridge, MA
- After the Revolution: 1878 / London
- Out with the Old: 1960 / Paris
- Deconstructing the Oracle: 480 BC / Athens
- About a Mountian: 1998 / Washington, DC
- Charles Fourier Asks, Whither Civilization?: 1808 / Lyon
- Philip K. Dick Recalls the Future: 1992 / New York City
- What Futures May Come From Dreams: c. 200 / Ephesus
- Game Changer: c. 1795 / London
- Revisionist History: c. 180 / Paphlagonia
- Looking Forward: c. 2890 / London
- Standard Operating Procedure: c. 1993 / New York City
- Two Storyboards: 753 BC / Rome
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: 1949 / New York City
- Vain Babbling: 1791 / Paris
- The God in the Machine: 1965 / Santa Clara, CA
- Springtime for Women: 1916 / New York City
- Back to the Future: c. 55 / Rome
Designs
- Until Next Month: 1997 / Cambridge, MA
- Jorge Luis Borges Plays the Lottery: c. 375 / Babylon
- Predestination: 1536 / Basel
- Measured Out With Coffee Spoons: c. 1910 / Paris
- Table of Hours: c. 2800 / One State
- The Eighteenth Hour: 1778 / Paris
- Readiness Is All: 23 BC / Rome
- Divination: c. 1525 BC / Egypt
- Dust to Dust: c. 305 BC / Athens
- Anti-Pasta: 1930 / Rome
- Washington Irving Interrupts a Nap: c. 1790 / New York
- Once More Unto the Breach: 1940 / London
- Better Than Nothing: c. 7 BC / Rome
- Connecting the Dots: 1812 / Moscow
- Plan B: 1969 / Washington, DC
- Gardens Bright With Sinuous Rills: c. 620 / Arabia
- Moving On: c. 720 / Japan
- Manifest Destiny: 1839 / Washington, DC
- Confidence Game: 1927 / Vasyuki
- Leave it All to Fate: c. 335 BC / Henan
- Social Engineering: A.F. 632 / London
- God’s Pure Foreknowledge: 1170 / Germany
- Post-Historic Man: c. 1969 / New York
- T. H. White Anoints a New King: c. 1216 / England
- Lest We Forget: c. 590 BC / Lesbos
- Wheel of Fortune: 524 / Pavia
- A River Runs Through It: 1937 / England
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Essays
- The Next Future: by John Crowley
- Buying Tomorrow: by Jennifer Szalai
- Apocalypse Now: by Tom Holland
- Trust Issues: by Paul Collins
Conversations
- F. Scott Fitzgerald & Dutch Sailor: A Newer World
- Aristotle & Henry Noel-Fearn: A Splendid Speculation
- George Washington & Dwight D. Eisenhower: So Long, Farewell
Miscellany
Biography
Reconsiderations
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