The seven-time Grammy Award winner reportedly left behind a vault containing so much music his estate could put out an album a year for the next century.

—ABC News.

2025. Wildfires again sweep the West Coast. Windstorms bearing sand and ash cause mass evacuations in Southern California. Title track from Prince’s latest album, “Rain of Colors Other Than Purple,” reaches No. 17 on Billboard’s Top Forty.

2043. Last remaining Antarctic ice shelf slides into the ocean, leading to an additional two metres in sea-level rise and total inundation of lower Manhattan. “Prince 2 Infinity,” released in time to qualify for the 2043 awards season, wins Best New Secret-Vault Album of the Year.

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2052. Canada, accepting the inevitable, cedes the lower half of its territory to migrant caravans from the United States. Prince’s single “Love EvN Sexier” becomes migrants’ unofficial anthem.

2055. Nunavut, the Native nation above the Arctic Circle, begins construction of forty-foot-high steel wall. Publicity for the double-album set “Piece O’ Prince” generates international buzz.

2064. Carbon-capture technology finally begins to make dent in atmospheric carbon dioxide. No Prince album released because of dispute among heirs.

2065. Carbon-capture technology purchased by ExxonMobil, mothballed. Heirs resolve dispute. “U R Prince” gets respectable numbers on Arctic-Antarctic Spotify.

2069. Aliens land super-air-conditioned spaceship on last remaining part of New Mexico desert still above water. X6y2 Craniums, alien High Commander, reveals that Prince’s newest, “AstroMusiKology,” is a personal favorite.

2071. Final melting of tundra leads to flooding of Central Asia and displacement of millions. Discovery of previously unknown Prince symbol in a secret drawer requires redesign of “Raspberry Hazmat Beret” CD cover.

2072. Aliens announce that they believe strongly in Earth’s future, plan to stay and open Prince-themed water park and cyclotron.

2073. Last tuna-salad sandwich on planet is eaten by coal-industry lobbyist in Winnipeg, new U.S. capital. Realistic hologram of Prince accepts Post-Lifetime Achievement Award at Rock and Roll Climate-Controlled Deep-Underground Survival Bunker of Fame.

2076. Typhoons bury Japan in plastic from the Greater Pacific Gyre (former Pacific Ocean). Hundreds of Prince impersonators perform his “Hot E-Nuff 4 U??” at Super Bowl CIX, in Gander, Newfoundland, U.S.A.

2077. Citing “impossible” weather, aliens leave, causing loss of confidence in global markets, financial panic. Release of Prince’s updated greatest-hits album postponed.

2083. Mass extinctions, desertification of Europe, nuclear war. Critical opinion of Prince’s newest, “Little Red Sustainable Electric-Powered Self-Driving Corvette,” questions album’s faithfulness to his original vision.

2085-86. Warmest nuclear winter ever recorded in Northern Hemisphere. Prince’s special “Dark ’N’ Ashy” Christmas album falls flat.

2097. Human race facing extinction. Carbon-dioxide-breathing bots discover Prince, start their own Prince fan site.

0. Carbon-dioxide-breathing bots discard old calendar, establish binary calendar beginning at zero. Bot-produced album of outtakes, “Prince +-==-+,” results in five hundred million bot downloads.

1. Flush with cash, bot-owned record company builds huge monuments to Prince in non-spatial dimensions.

10. Anti-bots from black-hole galaxy invade planet formerly known as Earth, make peace with resident bots through mutual love of Prince.

100. Fungus brought by anti-bots begins to wipe out Earth bots. Fungus found in ordinary bathroom grouting ravages anti-bots. Surviving bots and anti-bots unite to wire entire planet into single intercontinental cold-fusion-powered sound system to play Prince.

110. Last remaining human Prince fan is honored by bots and then ritually dematerialized. Global sound system plays A.I.-generated Prince mixtapes around the clock, commercial-free.

111. Bot archeologists discover hidden trove of unreleased Billy Ray Cyrus music. Bot mass suicides depopulate planet.

11011. “=+==#=+=#Prince Farewell Album+-=-=+” becomes a megahit on several planets of Alpha Centauri. New visitations of aliens land in former Minneapolis, initiate dune-buggy-and-bathysphere tours of important sites in career of Prince.

11111. Unblinking eye of God appears in heavens; the other eye and facial features resemble Prince’s.

Infinity sign. Alpha and Omega, the End of Time. Prince goes on forever. ♦