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[...]figures in pale coats and pale trousers passed-male, female, dark, light-casting soothing looks toward the small boy clutching a ragged rabbit. Nicky sat against the pillows in a tied-at-the-back hospital gown as one young medical person after another entered breezily, stood officially bedside, and asked his name-Nicholas Cooper Scott-and his age-nine-and why he was there. Deep within, six or seven people in pale hospital garb, their shoes covered with plastic bags, milled about, checked monitors sprouting wires, muttered to each other. Last week Ivy had hauled the air conditioner out from under the linen curtain cover and it was rattling in the window.

While in Newark, Johnny joins up with a group of hackers who live off the grid, called LoTeks, and who, with the aid of a post-cetacean dolphin named Jones, are able to download the data, including the cure for NAS, before Johnny suffers an overload and permanent brain damage. While much of futures studies takes place in the world of policy and proscription, turning our focus to the popular social imaginary, in the form of short stories, movies, and other media, lets us create tangible dispatches from the future (Kupferman 2020a). Wendell Bell (1997/2003), an early voice in the theorizing of the field, suggests that futures studies is both an art and a science. [...]analyses of educational futures—what will pedagogy, posthuman and machine learning, and capital networks influencing educational processes and systems look like in various future scenarios—stand to benefit from more creativity and imagination. [...]that was the nature of my game, because I’d spent most of my life as a blind receptacle to be filled with other people’s knowledge and then drained’ (Gibson 1986: 23).

Once the Buddha was born as Keanu Reeves, the Hollywood actor whose multiple onscreen emanations and deeds have saturated social media with memes, videos, and tweets of his myriad acts of generosity, selflessness, and Zen-like equanimity. These popular stories bear witness to Reeves's everyday acts of Buddha-like kindness as they perpetuate images of the actor happily signing autographs, giving up his seat on a New York subway, buying his movie crew motorcycles, and inviting strangers to share a van after their plane makes an emergency landing. These gestures are captured and widely circulated in popular culture and function much like the meritorious acts of the Buddha recounted in texts known as the Jataka tales or \"past life stories\" that record the Buddha-to-be's ethical virtues in previous lives and begin with the phrase, \"Once the Buddha was . . . ”