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Predicting the Future: Futurology, Futurist & Trends

  • Futurology: Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the practice and art of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures. Futurology is defined as the "study of the future."
    • Futurology is the interdisciplinary study of the medium to long-term future, by extrapolating present technological, economic or social trends, or by attempting to predict (forecast) future trends. It also includes normative or preferred futures, but the real contribution is to connect both extrapolated (exploratory) and normative research to explore better strategies. The best place to understand more about the process and practitioners is to look at Future Studies
    • Futurology is a term common in encyclopedias, though it used almost exclusively by nonpractitioners today, at least in the English-speaking world.
    • Futurology wikiBook
    • Category:Futurology wikipedia
    • List of basic futurology topics wikipedia
    • List of futurology topics wikipedia
    • List of futurologists wikipedia
  • Futures is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday's and today's changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies, bets and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in the attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures.
  • Futures Studies (colloquially called "Futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and what is novel. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.
    • Futures studies(and one of its subdisciplines, strategic foresight) are the academic field's most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world.
    • First, futures studies often examines not only possible but also probable, preferable, and "wild card" futures. Second, futures studies typically attempts to gain a holistic or systemic view based on insights from a range of different disciplines.
  • Futurist wikipedia
    • Futurist research trends (particularly in technology) and write accounts of their observations, conclusions, and predictions. In earlier eras, many of the futurists were attached to academic institutions.
    • Many business gurus present themselves as pragmatic futurists rather than as theoretical futurists. One prominent international "business futurist", Frank Feather, coined the phrase "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" in 1979.


World Future Society

  • World Future Society (WFS) official website : investigates how social, economic and technological developments are shaping the future. It helps individuals, organizations, and communities observe, understand, and respond to social change appropriately and effectively applying anticipatory thinking practices. Through its magazine The Futurist, media, meetings, and dialogue among its members, it raises awareness of change and encourages development of creative solutions. The society takes no official position on what the future may or should be like. Instead it provides a neutral forum for exploring possible, probable, and preferable futures.
  • World Futures Studies Federation, (WFSF) : a global network of practicing futurists, researchers, teachers, scholars, policy analysts, activists and others. It was established in 1967.


Future of Wikis

  • Future Map
    • The FutureMap website
    • Future Map wikipedia : The concept is based on the idea that a group of people who integrate the partial visions of its members into a common, shared, discussed, large enough, collection of anticipated events it can eventually reveal its own Shared Future .Because the FutureMap methodology is dynamic and implemented on a wiki-platform the Future projected by the group is constantly under revision


We all dream of what the future might hold.

Help us grow the Tree of the Future by seeding the ideas, and

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Futurology Ebooks

  • Wikia Book:Futurology
    • The following is a compilation of all of the Future Wikia's articles on futurology. Reading some of them is considered a good idea for anyone planning on predicting the future.
    • Click here to begin the Futurology Tutorial...
    • The stated objective of the Future Wikia is to analyze possible futures. With that said, we cannot directly analyze the future without running the risk of significant error. Instead, we must first break the future into many separate components and analyze them individually and synergistically, one step at a time. Our method of breaking the future into "areas" is only one of many possibilities, but as you can see from the following areas of the future, each subject area is particularly interesting, because we can expect significant technological developments from that area of the future. We found it necessary to categorize in two different ways:


Part I

  1. Introduction to Futurology
    In a nutshell
  2. The differences between science, science fiction, and fantasy
    Star Trek vs. the singularity
  3. Definition of time
    Can we really know what time is?
  4. Obstacles to conventional scientific means
    Being our own temporal police
  5. Free Will
    Being your own man.
  6. Methods and proofs
    Using principles of quantum probability to objectify the future
  7. Unconventional Means of Predicting the Future
    the Pseudoscience Approach to Futurology


Part II

  1. Building principles and axioms based on past futurology successes
    Can we use the "self-evident" "truths" about human nature that founded successful nations as forecasting agents, or were these assumptions just dumb luck?"
  2. Predicting which political ideologies, species traits, and commercial paradigms will be most fit to survive
    Using the Darwinism method of futurology
  3. Proofing dystopia and utopia
    Can modern methods of futurology prove or disprove the conjectures of Saint Thomas More, Hitler, etc.?
  4. US Presidential Election 2008: Who Will Win?
    Can we tell at this point in time who will be the next Mr. President?
  5. Cosmological forecasting
    At its largest scale, can futurology help humanity plan our potential in the universe, venture to other suns, and avoid the fate of the dinosaurs?

General Futurist Websites and Specific Industry Trends Websites

Top Futurist Websites

  • FutureGuru.com : The Institute for Global Futures (IGF) is a San Francisco based think tank that forecasts innovations and trends. IGF provides keynote presentations, futures research services, and strategy consulting to the Fortune 1000, associations and governments. IGF was founded by Dr. James Canton in 1990, and enables clients to: 1. Better anticipate future trends in business, society and the marketplace. 2. Develop and effectively deploy business strategy.
  • Futurist.com : Offering a regular blog, and free articles and links on issues shaping the future, from global warming to technology to business, and much more. Focused on the dissemination of information about the future and how to create it. The website is designed to be your free portal to the future. We provide information about many future related topics, and add to this information all the time.
  • TheFuturist.com

Futurist Multimedia (Audio/ Video)

Futurist Search Engines

  • trendpedia: Blog trend search. what's hot and what's not in the web, right now!

Futurist Magazines/ Futurist Newsletters

Futurist Blogs: Media, Communication, Search, Etc.

Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution. "I know of no other text that as beautifully and concisely presents the fundamental challenge that music now faces. This book is essential for anyone who wants to understand what is at stake in this debate." Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University and founder of Creative Commons.

Computer Trends

Futurist Articles

  • Hacking Toward Happiness - TIME Jun 21, 2007 ... Beneath the bits and bytes that shape the character of Silicon Valley, there's a booming digital subculture committed to the art of.....

Types of Futurist


\Fu"tur*ist\, n.

Social Types
  • 1. Preconventional Futurist. One who thinks about the future in relation to self (ego, personal vision), but without either concern for or broad understanding of the norms and conventions of society.
  • 2. Personal Futurist. One who uses foresight to solve problems primarily for themselves, within the conventions of society, and whose current behavior is oriented to and influenced by their future expectations and plans.
  • 3. Imaginative Futurist. One who habitually develops future visions, scenarios, expectations, and plans in relation to self and others, knowing but sometimes breaking the conventions and norms of society.
  • 4. Agenda-driven Futurist. One who creates or works toward top-down developed (received, believed) ideological, religious, or organizationally-preferredagendas (sets of rules, norms) and their related problems, for the future of a group.
  • 5. Consensus-driven Futurist. One who helps create or work toward bottom-up developed (facilitated, emergent), group-, communally-, institutionally- or socially-preferred futures.
  • 6. Professional Futurist. One who explores change for a paying client or audience, who seeks to describe and advance possible, probable, or preferable future scenarios while avoiding undesirable ones, and who may seek to help their client or audience apply these insights (manage change).
Methodological Types
  • 7. Critical Futurist. One who explores, deconstructs, and critiques the future visions, perspectives, and value systems of others, not primarily to advance an agenda, to achieve consensus, or for payment, but as a methodology of understanding.
  • 8. Alternative Futurist. One who explores and proposes a range of possible or imaginable futures, including those beyond one's personal, organizational, and cultural conventional and consensus views.
  • 9. Predictive Futurist. One who forecasts probable futures, events and processes that they expect are likely to occur, in a statistical sense, both as a result of anticipated personal and social choices, and for autonomous processes that appear independent of human choice.
  • 10. Evolutionary Developmental Futurist. One who explores evolutionary possibilities and predicts developmental outcomes, and attempts differentiate between evolutionary (chaotic, reversible, unpredictable) and developmental (convergent, irreversible, statistically predictable) processes of universal change.
  • 11. Validating Futurist. One who seeks to evaluate, systematize, and validate the completeness (for critical and alternative futures) and accuracy (for predictive and evo devo futures) of methodologies used to consider the future.
  • 12. Epistemological Futurist One who investigates the epistemology (how we know what we know) of the future, and seeks to improve the paradigms of foresight scholarship and practice
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