20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Future

What happens at the end, when we contact the alience, and the Big Answers revealed

By Elliott Kalan
Jan 12, 2011 6:00 AMJun 28, 2023 8:14 PM

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When the future arrives, we won’t recognize it at first. What we think of as just more of the present will turn out, only after weeks of intensive study, to have been the future.

To keep this from happening again, humanity will adopt “reality saving time” and set its clocks forward eight hours.

3 We will be disappointed by how many people in the future think pajamas are acceptable public outerwear.

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