How Did We Learn to Imagine Tomorrow? | The Future of the Future
Published: October 8, 2026
Duration: 37:21
How did people learn to imagine tomorrow?
Settle into The Future of the Future, a thoughtful sleep story about the changing ways we have tried to meet a day that hasn't arrived.
We begin with a sleeper in eighteenth-century Paris, dreaming of a city centuries ahead. From questions carved into Shang oracle bones and Babylonian records of the sky, the story reaches a comet's predicted return and the patient calculations of Nicole-Reine Lepaute.
Tonight we follow the many ways people have tried to understand what comes next.
Robert FitzRoy offers careful opinions...
Settle into The Future of the Future, a thoughtful sleep story about the changing ways we have tried to meet a day that hasn't arrived.
We begin with a sleeper in eighteenth-century Paris, dreaming of a city centuries ahead. From questions carved into Shang oracle bones and Babylonian records of the sky, the story reaches a comet's predicted return and the patient calculations of Nicole-Reine Lepaute.
Tonight we follow the many ways people have tried to understand what comes next.
Robert FitzRoy offers careful opinions...