It is always great to visualize tomorrow.  A hundred years ago, new yOrk live on the verge of new hope, and it crystallized.

Now the prediction is not so rosy — it seems New York, and even our own world is starting to burst on the seams….  Whatever it will be , and whereever we are, it will be upto us.

As we approach 2008, there is nothing more sure than our conviction that the world is ” as we make it.”

The World of Tomorrow - New York Times

The point of such predictions was not necessarily that they were accurate but that people cared enough about the future to bother thinking about it. With that in mind, 10 knowledgeable New Yorkers, from the Nobel laureate Paul Nurse (Simon Flexner’s successor) to a 12-year-old girl named Kate, were asked to imagine the city a century from now.

Whether their visions turn out to be right or wrong, whether they are bleak or tongue-in-cheek, all are generous efforts to wonder about the lives of New Yorkers of 2108, as those New Yorkers of 1908 once wondered about ours.