Window to the Future

Alpheren obsessed over the future. He spent many days in wonder about what may or may not be. One day he sat down, tinkering at his workbench as he liked to do when he stumbled into creating a new material. This material was reflective, like a mirror, but had a special property that Al discovered after some experimenting. When he held a small bit of it and stared deeply into it and thought about a plan he wanted to do, let's say try to fix the toaster even though he knew he lost the manual; the surface of the material would shine and show him the future. He would see himself attempting to fix the toaster without the manual and eventually fail, get frustrated and return to his workbench with a new toaster.