Since 2001, Jake Barton has been leading museum projects focused on leveraging history to inspire action, like the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Tulsa Race Massacre Museum’s Greenwood Rising. Here he turns to the future.

The Accelerator 2050 is a time machine inviting visitors to see, talk, and inhabit a conditional future, one that is still in flux and undecided. By texting Future Me to 1 (877) 763-1612, you can talk with your “future self”, and hear about the impact of the climate actions you are going to take. CarbonVision Cards enable us to see carbon emissions with our own eyes, inspiring us as a “seeing-is-believing” species to make change now. Organized by categories from fashion to finance to local government to K-12 schools, the postcards list fundamental changes that are needed, and direct us to online playbooks and case studies called “We Made Change, So Can You.” Leveraging behavioral science, world-building, and storytelling, The Accelerator 2050 shows that change is real and invites us into the future to experience it.