Vicent Andrés Estellés says “I long for a time that is yet to come”. Is it possible to long for the future? We put to talk to different voices of our literary panorama about the promises and illusions of the future that we can expect in these times. The discourse of nostalgia becomes habitual in a present in which the hopes of social ascent seem truncated, in which it seems that we replicate the precariousness of the generation of our mothers and grandmothers passed through a technological and academic filter. To all this, we can add new ingredients such as the climate crisis, unbridled neoliberalism and an individualism that goes hand in hand with loneliness and depression. Collective narratives have been exhausted and, in this scenario, it seems complicated to imagine new possible worlds, to dream utopias. Where are the illusions left in the 21st century? Will it be possible to project the emotional force of nostalgia into the future and turn it into transforming energy?