ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the knowledge and rationality that is used when making decisions in the long term, and how imagination interacts with knowledge and rationality at coping with the future. It acknowledges the existence of multiple types of rationality and uses the concepts of constructive and ecological rationality for the analysis of the cases. The chapter shows that for coping with the future both rationalities co-exist, but ecological rationality is the prevalent type when considering long-term effects. It considers two types of rationality: constructive and ecological rationality for the purpose of analysing the relation between knowledge and rationality. The chapter presents some cases of how reading novels can helps to the future in new ways by developing ability to create our means to relate to the future: the mental images. Another future imagined by science fiction is the one where humans use genetic engineering to create super humans.
