Sky Fire Glazed Period

What will happen to the world when fossil fuels run out? If controllable nuclear fusion cannot be achieved, where will civilization go? What kind of world will we leave to future generations? In the twenty-sixth century, civilization has regressed to a level between the Middle Ages and the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Three strings of glass beads, an agreement between three people. "Poets are not historians; historians tell stories of what has happened; poets tell stories of what may have happened." - Aristotle, "Poetics"