Field Recordings from the Future is a companion piece to Rob Hopkins' new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future'. The book is a deep dive into people and movements throughout history and around the world who have used visions of the future to inspire positive change on a large and dramatic scale. From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our minds—and hearts—when we “time travel,” Rob brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with?

He also asks what movements around climate justice and social justice would look like if their primary goal were to become the cultivation of longing for a different future? Longing, he argues, is a deep human emotion, one that activists are ill-equipped to generate. However, artists, musicians, scriptwriters, dancers, graffiti artists, poets and others are the people in our culture who excel in the cultivation of longing. Field Recordings from the Future is just the beginning of exploring how, by bringing changemakers and artists together, we can accelerate change and realise Don Delillo's words that "longing, on a large scale, is what makes history".