Future
The future is something that has not happened yet. Once that something has happened, it is called the past. If it is happening now, it is called the present. And the study of social advancement in the future is called futurology.
Movies, television shows and books that tell made-up stories about the future are often called science fiction, but there is also science fiction which takes place in the past, and fiction that takes place in the future but is not science fiction.
Future Media
The Zeitpyramide in 2023.
A visualization of the future light cone (at the top), the present, and the past light cone in 2D space.
Project of an orbital colony Stanford torus, painted by Donald E. Davis
Print (c. 1902) by Albert Robida showing a futuristic view of air travel over Paris in the year 2000 as people leave the opera.