Since its inception, The National Pastime has featured excellent
research and essays about baseball history. This year, though, we
asked our contributors to point their lenses not toward the past,
but toward the future. In 2020, SABR conducted a survey that
invited respondents to answer questions about baseball twenty years
in the future, framed by the following understanding: "[T]hat just
as baseball, and its history, is a reflection on culture and
society in the past and present, it could also be an input,
context, and/or predictor for predicting plausible futures of the
United States and other countries." The goal became to predict what
the world might be like in 2040, and how that will be reflected in
the game we love. There are so many factors affecting our
collective future, ranging from climate change to advances in
technology, from medical breakthroughs to the ways baseball will
adapt itself to changing tastes, from rules innovations to new
forms of media consumption and fan interaction. This issue includes
incisive essays on the future of the baseball uniforms, the Hall of
Fame, fan experiences and the media, the future of baseball cards,
climate change and baseball, as well as more speculative
imaginings, in the form of press releases from the future and even
thought-provoking futuristic flash fiction. The All-Star lineup
includes Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Harry
Turtledove, technology thought leader Cathy Hackl on baseball in
the metaverse, MLB Network's favorite chemist and climate scientist
Dr. Lawrence Rocks, Sidewise Award winner (and son of major league
catcher Del Wilber) Rick Wilber, and many more. NFTs, virtual
reality, machine learning, materials science-every cutting edge
technology will have its effect on baseball as we know it, and just
as baseball itself was integral to the development of previous
broadcast media from radio to streaming video, the sport will
continue to be the proving ground for new uses of technology yet to
come.
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