Chip Lord (1944), who works mostly as a video artist, created a work that looks into the future. The series is made up out of six diptychs each consisting of a digital image of a fictional future and a photo of an existing place in California. The images of the future show a scenario of public space of the 21st century: a post-modern chaotic multi-cultural streetlife. The basis of the digital adaptations are scenes from the science-fiction film Bladerunner. Lord edited videos-tills in these, which he made in Mexico and Japan, among others . Thus a reproduction of daily activities arises in these images. The result is an idea of how everyday streetlife could look like in the 21st century. The photographs, shown in combination with these images, are of headquarters of companies in Silicon Valley: the modern orderly, almost sterile dwelling of the intellect. In the eyes of Lord, awakening or consciousness is of great importance when you occupy yourself with the future. Every view on the future has to recognize the existence of the past and the present as components of a (universal) cultural identity.