🧵 The Short, Weird History of Fake Futures

Why we keep imagining tomorrow wrong—and why it always looks the same.

The Future Is Just Us Wearing Different Clothes

The future doesn’t really exist. It’s basically Schrödinger’s cat—we talk about it constantly, but it’s never actually here. For centuries, we’ve been drawing maps to places we’ve never been, slapping “Here Be Dragons” on the unknown and calling it foresight.

When you look back at old predictions—every sad “…