Table of Contents

2011 Fall

The Future

Introductory

• Kingdom Come: by Lewis H. Lapham

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

Departments

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

• Bullets, Ferris Wheels, Cults: Findings from the Editors

Biography

• Quack Prophet: by Colin Dickey

Reconsiderations

• Magical Thinking: by Ben Tarnoff

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