Submission by Michel Houellebecq

If you want a prediction for this afternoon, check out your daily horoscope. But if you need a forecast for thousands of years from now, you have no place to turn except science fiction. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and Frank Herbert’s Dune take us more than 20,000 years into the future. H.G. Wells advances 800,000 years ahead for The Time Machine.…