Medieval missionary discovering the point where heaven and earth meet, twentieth-century coloration of black-and-white engraving from The Atmosphere, by Camille Flammarion, 1888.

Medieval missionary discovering the point where heaven and earth meet, twentieth-century coloration of black-and-white engraving from The Atmosphere, by Camille Flammarion, 1888.

The Future

Volume IV, Number 4 | fall 2011

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Kingdom Come

Lewis H. Lapham

Buying Tomorrow

Jennifer Szalai

Apocalypse Now

Tom Holland

Trust Issues

Paul Collins

Magical Thinking

Ben Tarnoff

Quack Prophet

Colin Dickey

The Next Future

John Crowley

Map

By the Year 2050...

Miscellany

Learning to paint is a lifelong pursuit.

An American economist in Moscow.

AT&T brings you the future.

Last meals for two poets.

A Civil War general who spoke too soon.

Shaw and Churchill trade barbs.

Perpetually preparing for something that never happens.

Predicting the rise of the “videotex.”

Mark Twain again follows Halley’s Comet.

Misreading the heavens.

By their monuments ye shall know them.

Humphrey Bogart doesn’t make plans.

The Beatles and books, on the way out.

Emerson admires the splendors of his age.

“The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.”

Second thoughts on death.

The Ferris Wheel ends the frontier phase of American history.

Andy Warhol lives for the future.

Robert Graves chooses between his mother and a bicycle.

Shaping circumstances before crises emerge.

Voices In Time

Birthday of a New World

1776 | Philadelphia

Varying Interpretations

44 BC | Rome

Gardens Bright with Sinuous Rills

c. 620 | Arabia

Forecast

1865 | San Francisco

New Men and Old

1862 | Russia

Lest We Forget

c. 590 BC | Lesbos

Wheel of Fortune

524 | Pavia

Life Insurance

1718 | Adrianople

After the Revolution

1878 | London

Borrow the Barbarian’s Tools

1861 | Shanghai

On the Bright Side

1919 | Oxford

Washington Irving Interrupts a Nap

c. 1790 | New York

Remembering the Future

1992 | New York City

The Fenriswolf, the Midgard Serpent, and Thor Walk into a Bar

c. 1220 | Iceland

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

1949 | New York City

Furor Teutonicus

1835 | Paris

Managing the Future

1840 | Paris

Stormy with a Chance of Locusts

c. 95 | Patmos

Looking Forward

c. 2890 | London

Manifest Destiny

1839 | Washington, DC

Unintended Consequence

c. 370 BC | Athens

Divination

c. 1525 BC | Egypt

Unwelcome Prophet

c. 1190 BC | Argos

Futures Market

c. 1635 | Holland

Measured Out with Coffee Spoons

c. 1910 | Paris

About a Mountain

1998 | Washington, DC

Blind Fate

c. 429 BC | Thebes

Whither Civilization?

1808 | Lyon

The Eighteenth Hour

1778 | Paris

Time Traveler

802701 | London

Leave It All to Fate

c. 335 BC | Henan

Springtime for Women

1916 | New York City

What Futures May Come from Dreams

c. 200 | Ephesus

Once More Unto the Breach

1940 | London

Game Changer

c. 1795 | London

Predestination

1536 | Basel

All in Good Time

1841 | Ockham

Better Than Nothing

c. 7 BC | Rome

Back to the Future

c. 55 | Rome

Deconstructing the Oracle

480 BC | Athens

God’s Pure Foreknowledge

1170 | Germany

Endgame

1904 | Alexandria

Connecting the Dots

1812 | Moscow

School Ties

1899 | Tuskegee, AL

The Dying Is Easy

1778 | London

Plan B

1969 | Washington, DC

Question and Answer

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Vain Babbling

1791 | Paris

Dust to Dust

c. 305 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Utopias

Time Capsules

Naysayers

Future Frenzies

Promises, Promises

Robot Matrix

Reading into It

Where Are They Now?

Contributors

Conversations

Aristotle & Henry Noel-Fearn

George Washington & Dwight D. Eisenhower

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