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Only Hindsight: Where are the Historian Futurists?

Abstract

A friend who is planning a pie-in-the-sky conference (about which I\u27m super excited) texted me today with a quick question. Who would be a good \u27Historian of the Future?\u27 he asked, adding the bonus that I could dream big. Money no object, the next text read. I was at a loss for a few minutes. Who is the historian of the future? Who is trying to visualize that skill-set, categorize that life, read the trends of the past and plot the course of history yet to come? [excerpt

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