How Did We Learn to Imagine Tomorrow? | The Future of the Future

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

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...