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Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows
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Eveleth Rose / Goldstein Sophie / Lubchansky Matt
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An exploration of potential tomorrows from the host of the massively popular and critically acclaimed podcast Flash ForwardFlash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows takes readers on a journey from speculative fiction to speculative fact. Producer and host of the podcast Flash Forward, Rose Eveleth poses provocative questions about our future, which are brought to life by 12 of the most imaginative comics and graphic artists at work, including Matt Lubchanksy, Sophie Goldstein, Ben Passmore, and Box Brown. Each artist chooses a subject close to their heartIgnatz Award nominee Julia Gfrrer, for instance, will imagine a future in which robots make artand presents their chosen future in their own style. Drawing on her interviews with experts in various fields of study, Eveleth will then report on what is complete fantasy and what is only just out of reach in insightful essays following the comics. This book introduces compelling visions of the future and vividly explores the human consequences of developing technologies. Flash Forward reveals how complicated, messy, incredible, frightening, and strange our future might be.CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS INCLUDE: Matt Lubchansky, Sophie Goldstein, Zach Weinersmith, Box Brown, Maki Naro, John Jennings, Julia Gfrrer, Chris Jones, Blue Delliquanti, Amelia Onorato, Kate Sheridan, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Ziyed Ayoub, Ben Passmore

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Guide

For Robert who makes my present possible - photo 1

For Robert who makes my present possible while I traipse about in the future - photo 2

For Robert,

who makes my present possible

while I traipse about in the future.

The only thing that makes life possible

is permanent, intolerable uncertainty:

not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin,

The Left Hand of Darkness

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUTURE.

Its something thats equal parts terrifying and liberating, ghastly and

amazing, unnerving and wonderful. The thing I want to tell you about

the future is this: It hasnt happened yet. This might seem obvious, but

its something we all could stand to remember as were bombarded with

advertisements and tech CEOs and certain so-called futurists claiming that

this or that is definitely going to happenthat were locked into an inevitable

future, so we might as well fasten our seat belts and come along for the ride.

In a move that longtime listeners will likely recognize, Id like to start

this book about the future with a short trip into the past. Specifically, lets

zip over to the year 1859. More than 150 years after Isaac Newton first

published his book describing the laws of planetary motion, there was still

one small thing that astronomers couldnt quite figure out: Mercury. While

Newtons equations explained most of what they saw in the sky, the tiny

white-hot rock looped around the sun faster than it should have. Something

was messing with its orbit, but nobody could figure out what.

In the 1850s, a French astronomer named Urbain Le Verrier came up with

a theory: a mysterious and elusive planet must exist between Mercury and

the Sun. Le Verrier called the planet Vulcan, and for more than fifty years

astronomers searched the sky for evidence of the planet, pointing to all kinds

of specks and spots as proof that Vulcan existed. The

New York Times

wrote

that Le Verriers discovery of Vulcan ought to be warmly welcomed by all

astronomers.

Of course, there is no Vulcan. But it took a completely revolutionary set

of equations to put the mythological planet to bed. In 1915, Albert Einstein

published a series of papers outlining his Theory of General Relativity. As

he was preparing to present the third paper in the series, Einstein decided

to see whether his equations could explain this nagging mystery. When his

calculations accurately predicted the procession of Mercury, he later told

a friend that he was so excited he had heart palpitations and was beside

himself with joy.

In other words: A measurement made in the seventeenth century

that seemed like a small, insignificant blip wound up being a key clue to

the phenomenon that underpins our scientific understanding of the entire

universe. Einsteins pen destroyed Vulcanand reimagined the cosmos,

writes Thomas Levenson in his book

The Hunt for Vulcan

There are so many surprises like this onerealizations and reimaginings

that unlock entire worlds of discovery. The ability to manipulate bacteria

to cut up DNA strands was discovered in the 1990s, but it wasnt until a

INTRODUCTION

few years ago that CRISPR suddenly become a game-changing technology.

Polyethylenethe most popular plastic in the worldwas discovered by

accident; nobody predicted it would become the most ubiquitous human-made

material in the world.

The doctor who discovered the benefits of hand-

washing in the 1840s was ridiculed and died in an asylum after nobody listened

to him.

And of course, the reverse is true as wellthings we think are incredibly

important today might wind up being odd and embarrassing historical footnotes

tomorrow. Many famous scientists at the turn of the twentieth century

believed, for example, that mind reading was absolutely possible. Alexander

Graham Bell may have invented the telephone in part to try to communicate

with his dead brother. Its easy to find predictions gone badly wrong. One

of my personal favorites comes from the 1906 book

A Hundred Years Hence:

The Expectations of an Optimist

, which declares: The plan of attaining the

upper part of a small house by climbing, on every occasion, a sort of wooden

hill, covered with carpet of questionable cleanliness, will of course have been

abandoned: it is doubtful whether staircases will be built at all after the next

two or three decades. We are constantly dropping stones into the pool of

time, and which ones will sink and which will splash is often a mystery that can

take decades to solve.

I often call myself a futurologist, an admittedly dorky term that

encompasses the many (sometimes tinfoil) hats that I wear. I study the future

the way a melittologist studies bees by watching each buzzing insect closely

and gathering data and trying to decipher it. I watch the people who try and

map out the future (Futurists with a capital

with their degrees in things

like Strategic Foresight) and the science-fiction writers who try to tell stories

about the future. But those are not the only bees in the hive of the future. I

also watch the historians, the economists, the inventors, the biohackers, the

mothers organizing UBI experiments, the disabled people hacking their bodies

and equipment, and the farmers trying to learn new techniques and adapt to

new technologies.

The future is not made exclusively by white men in black T-shirts who

give TED Talks. The future is far more ornery and slippery than that. Sure,

youre not Jeff Bezos or the CEO of a fossil fuel corporation,

and it would be

absurd for me to tell you that you have the same kind of power and influence

as they do. But what you do shapes the future, too. Your decisions for what

to accept or not accept can shift the Overton Window, can push your local

politicians to change their votes, and can convince your neighbors and friends

to change their behavior. The world around us is the aggregate of our choices,

and those choices matter. If they didnt, corporations and politicians wouldnt

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