Welcome to an advance look at the near future, where serious scientists, science fiction writers, psychics, mystics, UFO researchers, and assorted theorists who today are considered crackpots meet to share controversial ideas that soon may be common knowledge. Alan Watts reports on 29 intriguing and perplexing developments, many with tantalizing photos and ingenious charts. In addition, he reports from the frontiers of advanced theoreticians (or wildly wrong eccentrics, depending on your prejudice) regarding such ideas and constructions as the anti-matter reactor and the "probability atom".