Introduction

In 1990 Enigma created its own "future history", attempting to create a plausible, or at least entertaining, description of the events over the next 130 years of Earth's history.

The Future History project was actually done in two parts. The first part was created during an actual club meeting, where members divided into six teams (Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, World Sociology, The New World, The Old World, and The East) and brainstormed ideas for each decade. (You can definitely see the work of certain demented minds in the New World team, which had major fixations on Dan Quayle and killer bees!) As each decade was completed, the results were shared among everybody and each team went back to write the next decade, basing their predictions on what they learned from everyone else. The copious results of this evening were collected, collated, rationalized, expanded, and rewritten by Scott Martin to provide the complete narrative below. (Note: The original decade-long "turns" were translated to twenty years in order to allow some of the drastic changes to be more plausible.)

• Future History: 1991-2010
• Future History: 2011-2030
• Future History: 2031-2049
• Future History: 2050-Dec 9, 2061
• Future History: 2061-2062

As a follow-up to the initial project, Scott ran a similar but more game-like scenario over e-mail, which takes place in the same world beginning 40 years after the initial future history ended and in which each participant played a specific nation. This project only lasted two "turns", but carried the future history forward to the year 2120.

• Future History: 2063-2100
• The World of 2100
• Maps of the World in 2100
• "The European Communities and the Non-Industrialised Nations" (a "future article" written by the project coordinator as background material)
• Future History: 2101-2110
• Future History: 2111-2120