Since the first early cultures, people have tried to see, understand and have more of the future. Obviously, we can't help ourselves. You become curious when something is different from the familiar and familiar. You suspect that the future will be different from the present. That is why scenarios of the future have an almost magical attraction. People are driven by five motives to look into the future.

1. You want to make better decisions. That is why you want to know the probable future. You want to know what will come, what will stay and what will work. That's why people used to go to fortune tellers. Today they do it more professionally. Everyone knows that one cannot predict the future, but at the same time nobody can get along without future assumptions. Every decision is based on assumptions about the future, consciously or unconsciously.
2. They want to feel more secure. They want to avoid fear and anxiety. They want to be less surprised by the future. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegard distinguished fear from fear. Fear has no particular cause, it is the unpleasant feeling that something could happen to you. Without you knowing exactly what it could be. And so you look around and look for signs of unpleasant surprises that could be dangerous for you. On the other hand, you are afraid of a concrete event that would obviously harm you. In the best case you try to learn more about it and to prepare yourself. In the worst case, as is so often the case, you put your head in the sand.
3. You want to develop, make more of your life, be successful and happy. You strive for the beautiful feeling of hope and confidence. Therefore, you are looking for possibilities and opportunities to improve yourself and your situation in the future. You want it better in the future than it is today. And you want to have it better or be better than others. Sometimes you suspect that this alone is enough to make you better, so that you are not worse off than you are today.
4. We want to give your life and actions a meaning and a direction. You want to know where you should develop and why you are taking all the trouble of the day on yourself. Therefore you develop a vision of the aspired future in which you hope to find fulfillment.
5. You want to do the right thing today for a better future. You want to act intelligently for the future in order to realize your vision. This is why you set yourself goals, plan and implement projects and processes, and set yourself in motion towards the future.

You will find these motifs in many places. Immanuel Kant has spent his entire philosophical life's work searching for answers to three questions in which these five motives are also asked: What can I know? Here we see the striving for knowledge about the probable future and the possible surprises. What can I hope for? Here we find questions about opportunities and vision. What should I do? That is clearly the question of the right actions for the future. These five motives and goals for the future are deeply anchored in you. They correspond exactly to the five future glasses, as I call them.