The future tense refers to events that have yet to happen.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future 17.11.06)
The future tense refers to a tense category which places an event in the future.
(http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/onto/LinguisticOntology.owl#futureTense)
FutureTense locates the situation in question later than the present moment (time of speaking.)
(http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Future)