For centuries people have shared both a fascination with, and a fear of, the future. No matter what background we are from or how secure we may feel as individuals, we all share the same curiosity about our future. The pace of life has accelerated dramatically in the last hundred years or so, heightening our sense of urgency to live life to the full, to fit in the variety of experience that modern life has to offer.  

Most of us can only guess as to what the future has in store, but there have been remarkable men and women throughout history who have claimed to have actually 'seen' the world as it will be in the future. Some ot these individuals have been exposed as hysterical cranks, or as charlatans intent on exploiting the fears of the gullible. However there are others whose pronouncements cannot be so readily dismissed.

Of course, personal visions are impossible to validate and it could also be argued that the symbolic nature of many predictions defies the efforts of both believers and sceptics alike. Wheather we regard the psychics and seers as genuine or otherwise, the question remains. Is it possible to forsee that which has not yet come to pass? And if it is, is it possible to alter it?

Writing the Future?

In 1898 Morgan Robertson published a novel about pride, greed and stupidity. It was called

The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility, and it described the maiden voyage of a transatlantic luxury liner named Titan. Although reputedly unsinkable, the Titan strikes an iceberg and sinks with enormous loss of life.

In 1912 the Titanic, a transatlantic luxury liner widely touted as unsinkable, made her maiden voyage. She struck an iceberg and sank, with enormous loss of life.

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