Concept

Futurist

Overview

Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is future studies or futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Futurist

• Charles Hartshorne
• Max More
• FM-2030

Related ideas

• Futures studies
• Interdisciplinarity
• Environmentalism
• The Guardian
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Futurism
• The Daily Telegraph
• Science fiction
• Positivism
• Time
• Theology
• World War II
• Evolutionary biology
• Computer science
• Economic growth

Opposing perspectives

• Singularitarianism

Place in the tradition

Part of Fascism.

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