The Reading Warehouse

A young Japanese girl, Kokoro, enters her twenties adrift and disoriented by a fast-changing world.

Kokoro was suffering from future shock. Born in Tokyo in the late 1990s, she was coming of age at a disorienting time of human history. Tsunamis of change in technology, geopolitics, economics and more, were buffeting the world of her parents. An old world seemed to be crumbling down. At an institute in Devon, England, she meets the Futurist, a mysterious and prophetic man. Her life changes irrevocably when she embarks on a journey with him into the future.

The Futurist is a dialogue about the collective odyssey of humanity, touching upon the future of communications, geography, money, ecology and evolution. Slowly Kokoro learns how to befriend the uncertainty of living in tumultuous times, and how to harness the evolutionary forces within her to fulfil her life purpose.