Paraphrasing the title of a famous novel (Love in the Time of Cholera) by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, this issue of the journal intends to reflect on one of the most problematic aspects of contemporary society: that is, that of the renunciation of planning for the future, crushed on a present that one cannot even live fully and consciously, because it is voraciously engulfed by a speed that is an end in itself. In a 2008 publication, Bauman depicts the time of modernity as a set of scattered dots that do not indicate any future trajectory but invite one to live moment by moment, not allowing projects, desires, dreams to be realized but "occasions" to be consumed according to a logic that motivates only to enjoy the ephemeral possibility of the now, living in the dimension of the momentary as a form of protection from the anguish of a life without prospects. Defuturization is the child of the culture of the ephemeral, and the privileged victims are especially the young to whom, instead, the dimension of the future should belong - almost constitutively. Young people are the future: their personal future but also that of the society to which they belong and which must be able and able to redesign itself together with them and through them. Stagnation in an "omnipresent present," more suffered than experienced, magnifies the most deleterious aspects of a generalized crisis, material and immaterial, with which contemporary society is usually identified: we speak of an economic, financial, political, social crisis, but also of a crisis of values and education, grasping of the term only its negative meaning (which, moreover, seems to have taken over only in the second half of the twentieth century) as opposed to the positive meaning of transformation, change, therefore also of evolution and emancipation.