I don't think that historians are particularly prescient. It may be true that those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it, but the problem is determining which parts of the past matter.
Nonetheless, here's a bit of prescience from my book Bigfoot. Well, kinda. I wrote:
"And if humans ever do escape Earth for outer space, settle on some other planet, or at least explore extensively, there will doubtless be reports, earnest and heartfelt, of creatures hiding in the shadows. We have already invented these wildmen, already imagined them into being, and they just need a place to roam. Call them aliens. Call them wildmen. Call them Bigfoot. And the dust will record their tracks, evidence of their passing."
Admittedly, "Apollo 18" is a movie, not the recording of an expedition. But already you can see the myth of the wildman--with the scary tracks--being transferred tgo outer space.
Nonetheless, here's a bit of prescience from my book Bigfoot. Well, kinda. I wrote:
"And if humans ever do escape Earth for outer space, settle on some other planet, or at least explore extensively, there will doubtless be reports, earnest and heartfelt, of creatures hiding in the shadows. We have already invented these wildmen, already imagined them into being, and they just need a place to roam. Call them aliens. Call them wildmen. Call them Bigfoot. And the dust will record their tracks, evidence of their passing."
Admittedly, "Apollo 18" is a movie, not the recording of an expedition. But already you can see the myth of the wildman--with the scary tracks--being transferred tgo outer space.
