Before science fiction was a genre, Hugo Gernsback was already building the infrastructure for it: radio magazines, hobbyist communities, wild speculative stories, and the first publication devoted entirely to imagining tomorrow. A Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg, he launched Amazing Stories in 1926 and quietly trained a generation of readers and writers to think in futures, long timelines, and unintended consequences. His magazines hosted women in leadership roles, predicted computer dating, video calling, and the social costs of new technology, while also carrying the casual racism and sexism of their era. We place him alongside Einstein, the artists of Vitebsk, and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to ask what it meant for Jewish creators to be building the future from the cultural margins. And we end with the question he would have loved most: who is building that kind of futures literacy today?