A government project sends a Time Dip into the future just to observe whether their actions have turned out well, but subsequent observations show that the act the observing has somehow eliminated mankind, so Hasten (the world’s most competent histo-researcher) must now go forward to find out what caused the lethal factor.
We sent the Dip on ahead, at fifty year leaps. Nothing. Nothing each time. Cities, roads, buildings, but no human life. Everyone dead.

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  1. “Meddler” by Philip K. Dick, in Future Science Fiction, October 1954.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Philip K. Dick