Retrocasting means working backward from an imagined future to narrate how it plausibly came to be, treating that future as history and reverse-engineering its causes. The term is used informally in design and foresight writing and has no single, fixed coinage.

Jewish futurist reframe: Mirrors the midrashic habit of narrating backward from a known ending. It asks “how did we get here?” of Sinai or redemption. In this framing, prophecy and memory become the same muscle.