Memoirs of the Future

Explores the life and work of W. Warren Wagar.

Memoirs of the Future is an intellectual autobiography, tracing the life and work of its author as a futurist, from his childhood writings on the belief in progress to his studies of ideas of the future in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought to his fictional scenario of the next 200 years, A Short History of the Future. It concludes with some warnings for the third millennium and a selection of original verse bearing on the human condition and human destiny.