THE FUTURE OF REVERSE MATHEMATICS Harvey M. Friedman We start our discussion of the future of reverse mathematics by examining its origins and its place in the foundations of mathematics. We discuss attractive features of reverse mathematics for the working recursion theorist. We discuss the interpretability conjecture. We discuss interpretations of the reverse mathematics conception that are more severe than what is reflected by reverse mathematics today. We present some recent work that is in the direction of what we call "severe reverse mathematics." We discuss a huge collection of specific open problems of a new kind in severe reverse mathematics. We discuss a number of new results and open problems in reverse mathematics as it is currently developed. These results and problems are mostly connected with ATR_0 and Pi-1-1-CA_0.