to receive the newsletter every other Saturday. Writing about the future is daunting. It’s hard not to imagine future cynics, tenting their fingers and chortling about just how wrong you were—the way that we do when we look back at past predictions. (We still don’t have flying cars, after all.) The future is a strange creature, full of tentacles that you can’t quite keep track of even if you know how many there are. Advertisement Take the current pandemic, for example. For years, experts had warned that the next pandemic was a question of when, not if. It was a certainty that it would happen at some point, probably soon. On my podcast,