There are many traditional ways for seeing into the future.
A new, effective technique has been developed in the MIT
labs that will make them all obsolete: cryoscrying. The MIT
scientists have discovered that at very low temperatures,
time freezes and condenses into small marble-like objects
corresponding to time-spans of centuries. During initial
tests, the 24th century was reduced to a orange-red sphere
with a of diameter of 3 cm.

Observing the marble under an electron microscope, the
scientists were able to discern political upheavals and a
ferocious war against the Martians, which will inevitably
lead to the destruction of Earth at 2311. The sole survivors
will be MIT scientists, who by then will become the Rulers
of Earth. They will have given the Earth to the Martians as
ransom for their lives. Obviously, they do not want the
discovery of cryoscrying leaked out, so they froze the
moment of discovery into a small orange-red sphere with a
diameter of 2 mm.