The question of the future has become poignant at this time, in the shadow of the Corona plague, the crisis of democracy and the ecological crisis. This question is no longer asked out of the joy of the discovery of the unknown, out of a belief in making the world a better and more just place, nor out of fear of the end. It is asked today in an attempt to deal with a sense of loss of the future, with human temporality, which in the contemporary hyper-technological capitalist era has been reduced to a present that lasts without a future.

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In the age of "algorithms" it seems that the continuance of the present cannot develop into the new and surprising, but remains known in its essence, predictable, manageable and series. Is it possible to talk about the future today in a way that is not only formal or positivist, but also in a way that presents the concreteness of the invisible, the open, the utopian and the dystopian, in our lives, and that explains why such a presence is important and necessary for present life? Possibilities of philosophical speech and articulation that will extricate him from the foundation of mental indifference and the obvious. The richness inherent in the future needs the development of a philosophical language that is sensitive to the tentative, uncertain status - to the "maybe" of the "not yet".

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The discussion of the future is necessary to open the "horizon of hope", as Ernest Bloch called it, and this gothic opening of the future is necessary so that an ethical and political vision can be linked to future generations. Within the temporal structures that characterize contemporary culture, as well as, comparative perspectives on different types of intentionality, moods, and future-oriented experience forms, as question appear in diverse cultural and religious contexts.