Later Than We Think

Sandra Miesel's Foreword to Poul Anderson's Cold Victory (Psychotechnic History Vol II) is written from the standpoint of a society that takes psychodynamics and hyperlight physics for granted. This makes us think that the Psychotechnic Institute will succeed and that Miesel's narrator lives perhaps in a period like that of the Stellar Union. Instead, the Institute will be outlawed in Vol II and Miesel's narrator turns out to live thousands of years later in the Galactic Civilization when human beings have changed fundamentally.

For ways to fit "The Chapter Ends" into the Psychotechnic History, see:

Chronological Questions II
The Galactic Synthesis Of Human Psychodynamics With Interstellar Coordination (here)