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8Sages wants you to be able to stay in touch with the research methods Sage employs to anticipate the outcome of on-going events and asks that you to forward your questions, comments, suggestions.

One visitor tells us that it in not possible to study the future empirically because the future does not exist in final form until it actually happens.

True. But the future is accessible for empirical study when time is conceived as a unity. The poet T.S. Eliot asserts that time past and time future are both contained in time present. Stephan Hawkins the cosmologist suggests has an hour-glass in mind when thinking of time with possible futures flowing continuously through a pinched present into the past.

Using Hawkins hourglass metaphor, we discover portents of the future by studying time at the special moment it passes through the pinched existential present that separates possible futures from realized pasts.