Human consciousness is an evolutionary phenomenon embedded within an evolutionary universe. Future consciousness is an evolution of evolution, bringing the evolutionary process under purposeful control. Through future consciousness, we are guiding our own self-evolution. “Flourishing in the flow of evolution” is a realistic and dynamic model for identifying psychological well-being and our preferable future evolution. Wisdom facilitates flourishing and is the highest expression of future consciousness. Wisdom serves as the guiding light for both our individual future development and our collective evolution. Education should serve the ongoing development of wisdom. Science fiction provides an arena for imagining and thinking about the possibilities of the future. Science fiction reflects flexible, diverse, and holistic future consciousness expressed in a narrative and mythic form. A key challenge to science fiction is to envision what future conscious minds will be like.
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