Between February 2009 and December 2010, we spoke to hundreds of people about the future. A few dozen of these people were nice enough to make predictions about the future.

Some of these predictions took the form of elaborate short stories, or intricate drawings or maps.

Click on their names to see what these participants submitted to the project. (Note: to see these predictions in context, click on "Timeline & findings", above.)

June 2013 - Local ice-cream trucks are joined by a fruit-truck. The fruit-truck has a sound system, too. On Saturday nights, it parks in open lots or empty parking areas & provides music for free neighborhood dance parties.

March 2015 - Fleet of mobile libraries begins circulating through Somerville. Vans full of books & other print material; home-repair tools; bike-repair tools; gardening implements & supplies; media-making technologies; art supplies; and musical instruments rotate through Somerville's squares on a weekly basis. Community members can borrow from these communal collections for short-term projects.

January 2016 - Community printshop opens in Union Square, with silkscreen, letterpress, and bookbinding workshops open to community members.

(source: Alana Kumbier)