The Past Through Tomorrow was a collection of Robert Heinlein's famed "Future History" stories
The stories, for the most part, follow the same storyline of a rapidly collapsing American sanity, followed by a theocratic dictatorship (If This Goes On...) and the development of true civilization and justice, which is squelched in the last story (Methelusah's Children), forcing the pseudo-immortal Howard Families to flee Earth for their lives from the approaching mobs. In the very end, the Howards (led by recurring Heinlein character Lazarus Long) return to find that the rest of the species has discovered the secret to immortality.
Of course, creative destruction doesn’t happen tomorrow. ABE has a solid future, and the need for artemisinin far outstrips the supply and will for the foreseeable future. So Jacqueline Novogratz doesn’t have to worry – at least not yet.
But the cost of extracting the drug from wormwood trees, which only produce artemisinin under a narrow set of agricultural and climatological conditions, or of manufacturing it entirely through chemical synthesis, is so high that the impoverished populations suffering the most cannot afford it.
Through photography, Chris Jordan puts American and global issues into perspective in an effort to help us grasp their magnitude.
Tomorrow is the day after today; it is in the near future.
In popular culture the vision of the abstract tomorrow can be a positive one: "I'll get around to it tomorrow", "my ship will come in tomorrow", "the sun will come out tomorrow." There can be negative emotions attached to tomorrow as well, perhaps related to future justice, judgement or revenge.
"The rent is due tomorrow";"Tomorrow is my last day on the job" - but whether a specific use of the word is to be understood as literal or abstract is not always clear.
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