In this chapter, I explore future imaginaries and visions as historical variables that enfold impact despite their genuine fictional character. I argue for an examination of collective imaginaries of the future as a burning glass for a social analysis of the present. The future can be viewed from different perspectives in terms of its function in accessing what is to come and what is. I then extend my scope of the future to the concept of time and in particular to the examination of the changeability of time regimes. I build on Reinhart Koselleck and Lucian Hölscher as well as Aleida Assmann when I illuminate the pre-modern and modern time regime in its components and thus present the Western ideological background to which the social conundrum of this work refers. I pursue a short genealogy of the role of the future in the modern time regime, which can be prototypically summarized in the concept of progress. The discussion of historical approaches to utopia, dystopia, and risk finally leads me to the third sub-chapter, in which I deal with the ruptures of the time regime in the 21st century. Here, I put forward initial theses on the struggle of the inherited concept of the future. With Assmann I consider new societal attention to the controversial past and with Eva Horn I trace the prevailing relationship to the future as catastrophe. Based on Ulrich Bröckling and Jörn Ahrens, I sound out some societal reactions to this tension by linking the paradigmatic idea of resilience with the emergence of a New Normality.