About

What This Is

The Expected World is an archival publication that surfaces texts originally written about the future — predictions, forecasts, policy projections, fictional imaginings — each anchored to a specific date or period that has now elapsed.

The site exists to create a particular kind of encounter: a reader meets a mind from the past speaking confidently, or anxiously, or hopefully, about a moment the reader has already lived through. The gap between expectation and outcome is the editorial territory.

How Entries Are Selected

Every entry must satisfy four criteria. The source text must reference a specific future date, year, or bounded period. The source must be verifiable. And the pairing of prediction and elapsed reality must reward attention.

Contact & Submissions

If you have found a passage that meets our criteria, we would like to hear about it. Submit a passage.

For other inquiries: contact@theexpectedworld.com