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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 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 about tomorrow's weather. Edward Lorenz finds uncertainty in a tiny change. Aymara speakers describe a future out of sight behind them, while psychologists explore how memories help us imagine what comes next.
At last, we visit an organ playing across centuries, seeds waiting in buried bottles, and a forest outside Oslo growing paper for books that will remain unread until 2114.
The books can wait. The trees can keep growing. Tomorrow can arrive while we rest.
Let the story keep you company as you settle down to rest.
This sleep story is told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening.
Explore The Idea of Ideas series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd5WzOPdClFY
Listen to more Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZk
Explore Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/sleep-stories/
Support the project:
https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviour
Sleep well. 🌙
Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.
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 about tomorrow's weather. Edward Lorenz finds uncertainty in a tiny change. Aymara speakers describe a future out of sight behind them, while psychologists explore how memories help us imagine what comes next.
At last, we visit an organ playing across centuries, seeds waiting in buried bottles, and a forest outside Oslo growing paper for books that will remain unread until 2114.
The books can wait. The trees can keep growing. Tomorrow can arrive while we rest.
Let the story keep you company as you settle down to rest.
This sleep story is told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening.
Explore The Idea of Ideas series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd5WzOPdClFY
Listen to more Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZk
Explore Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/sleep-stories/
Support the project:
https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviour
Sleep well. 🌙
Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.