Flashforward

Flashforward, sometimes known as flash-forward, or prolepsis, is a narrative technique that involves presenting in a movie, series, and other media expected or certain events from the future. It's the opposite of flashbacks that show the past.

This technique is used much less often than the flashbacks mentioned above - their primary "drawback" is to make sure the recipient is aware of the fate of the character (eg, he will not die). On the other hand, the introduction of flashforwarding is commercially reasonable as a means of attracting the viewer. The most famous example is the series Lost, which, since the last episode of the third season, regularly presents the future fate of individual characters. The creators of the show often, after a while, "decide" whether a flashback is flashback or flashforward, while trying not to reveal too much. Flashforward is also the main subject of the book and the show with the same title (it's the second one after the Lost ABC series using this theme). Both stories combine the title futurospection, during which the whole humanity loses for 2 minutes and 17 seconds unconscious and sees the vision of its future on April 29, 2010. In the novel, written by Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, the cause of the event was the Great Hadron Collider.

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