The future does not exist

The authors of this book propose a different interpretation of the retrofuturist phenomenon, starting from a simple intuition: the future only exists through the innumerable futures carried by bygone eras, and in particular by our near modernity, which may have to be tempted with more intensity than any other to take charge of your future. The story is decidedly much more populated than we imagine. The future of the past, unrealized, insist in the heart of our time, drawing by their lines of active futurition a multitude of parallel stories. Do these futures exist less than the others? Why not give them an ontological dignity equal to that of the future of the present? Alain Bublex, Elie During