Three visions of tomorrow occupied the Dallas Museum of Art in 1972. One invited citizens to stamp their preferences onto a picture of the future. One looked backward at World's Fair grandeur. One sealed miniature figures inside transparent boxes. Together, they made a portrait of futures-thinking contrasting the citizen as participant and the citizen as exhibit.

In 1973, the world's best astronomers miscalculated the comet of the century. In Houston, an architecture collective was wiring living rooms to satellites, printing letterhead for a dolphin embassy, and predicting remote work. Down the road in San Antonio, a technology company nearly invented the Internet. An invitation to the future with Universal Technology, Ant Farm, and Datapoint.