Ebook: The Future

Facing the future -- Oracles, prophecy, and divination -- Literary utopias -- Words-in-freedom, art for the future -- World's fairs and exhibiting the future -- The pre-invention of the web -- The computer becomes a book -- Current fictions : design fiction, science fiction -- Conclusion : practices for future-making.;In this book, the author explores the concept of "future-making" and showcases the ways in which the future has been imagined and made, through the works of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.--adapted from preface.