As of August 2010, we've spoken to hundreds of people about the future. A few dozen of these people were nice enough to make predictions about the future. (Would you like to make a prediction? If so, click on "Make a prediction", above)

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)