Sleep Stories from the Pioneers
How Did We Learn to Imagine Tomorrow? | The Future of the Future
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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…