The chapter opens with a discussion of the Doomsday Clock, which is a device that predicts the future. The narrator explains that it is a projection of the future, and that it will be used to predict the future of mankind. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol of the unity of humankind, and it is believed that the future will be the same as the present. In other words, the present will be different from the future that will come.