Investigating several modern ‘mega events’, including World’s Fairs and Olympic Games, this paper discusses the complex relationship such events and their sites have often had with ‘the future’. Such events are frequently associated with demonstrating progress towards future ‘utopias’ (for example ‘The World of Tomorrow’ theme of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York) or leaving a tangible positive social and economic ‘legacy’. However, other uses of mega event sites have also frequently manifested darker, more anxious ideas about that which is yet to come. In this paper I discuss three forms in which mega events’ sites relate to the idea of the future: before, during, and after they take place. In discussing these relationships, I demonstrate how traces of ‘past futures’, when investigated archaeologically, provide a diverse means by which to understand how societies have related to the idea of the future through the modern era.

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梦Dream以求：大型活动和过去的踪迹

本文研究了包括世博会和奥运会在内的几项现代“大型活动”，讨论了此类活动及其地点与“未来”之间的复杂关系。此类事件通常与展示未来的“乌托邦”（例如1939年纽约世博会的“明天世界”）取得进展或留下切实的积极的社会和经济“遗产”有关。但是，大型活动场所的其他用途也经常表现出对即将到来的事件的更黑暗，更焦虑的想法。在本文中，我将讨论大型事件发生地与未来概念相关的三种形式：发生之前，发生期间和发生之后。在讨论这些关系时，我展示了在考古学中如何考察“过去的期货”的踪迹，