That’s some preprint! The Alliance of American Museums has just published their November/December 2040 issue of Museum magazine. It’s free to all, in PDF. Generally too tame and fearful of snipping at our present-day cat’s-cradle of consensus about the future, I’d say. But I do like the whimsical idea of a future Volcano Adventures Museum…

“recent technological advances in protective heat shield clothing have made it possible for group tours to climb down into the crater of the volcano”