NOVITA'[1553]

Progress toward a better future is a notion about time, but emerged from a feeling of spaciousness.  At the end of the 19th Century, European peoples confronted the end of their capacity to expand spatially into other parts of the world.  It was the end of the Age of Empires and the end of the Frontier for Americans.  Optimistic expansionism was undaunted, however, and the 20th Century opened with a new version: a future paradise based on a combination of technology with social science and political-economic nostrums.  As the Century closes, we are facing the exhaustion of that world view.  The frontier of time is closing.  The 21st.  Century is dawning on the end of the future.