Future TenseIn the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture as premonitions of a future that was alternately unsettling and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks were seen as traces in the present of a future world, its technologies, and its possible transformations. In Future Tense, Roxanne