Having the last word in a collection of essays by some of the best minds and most respected anthropologists of our time is a fearful task, all the more so since the subject at hand is the future of applied anthropology. I am tempted to begin my remarks with Crane Brinton’s observation in The Anatomy of Revolution that “Man is unique in nature and among animals in being able to conceive a future” (1952, quoted in Frank 1999:302). And conclude with the popular graffito, “Due to a lack of interest tomorrow has been canceled.” But to paraphrase Charles Kettering, we all have an interest in the future since we are going to spend the rest of lives there. And the august contributors of this collection have not only envisioned possible futures for applied anthropology, they have called us to arms. After all, in the words of Smith Barney, “The future belongs to those who earn it.” My friends are well aware of my fondness for epigraphs, and I was tempted to construct my remarks whole cloth from my Quotationary, one of my Holy Trinity of reference books—the others being Webster’s Dictionary and The Chicago Manual of Style. But that would only reinforce well-founded opinions that I long ago used up any ideas of my own. Before I offer up my few meager observations, I think it is worth remembering another prognosticator, one whose vision is instructive for applied anthropologists as we look out from the vantage point of a new century upon what we hope will be an expanded role for us in world affairs. Sir Edward Tylor (1958:539) believed that anthropology is a reformer’s science, and we, his great, great, ever-so-great intellectual grandchildren, still do. In his 1976 plenary address to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Edward Spicer (1976:339) spoke for applied anthropologists today when he said that we yearn to see our “knowledge employed usefully in the general society.” The title of this collection, “The Future Lies Ahead,” is meant to make us smile as well as ponder our discipline’s future. And when reformers consider the future, utopian visions cannot be far removed. And so, I couldn’t help but look backward. When Bob and Beverly Hackenberg told me the title of this symposium, Edward Bellamy’s classic utopian novel, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, quickly came to mind. The novel’s hero, Julian West, goes to sleep in 1887 and awakens from his trance-induced nap in the year 2000 to find his hometown, Boston, utterly transformed. Not only are there all manner of newfangled inventions—electric lights, The Future Lies Ahead, Or Does It?