Kevin Kelly

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

American Editor

Adena Friedman

One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.

American Businesswoman

Jamais Cascio

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

American Writer

Ray Kurzweil

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

American Inventor

Erwin McManus

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

American Author

Nicolas Ghesquiere

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

French Designer

Dick Wolf

American Producer

Brian Reitzell

American Musician

Ray Bradbury

Hal Sparks

American Actor

Primarily used to describe someone envisioning future tech or societal changes, not just any predictions.

Tech/Society Focus

Unlike astrologers who predict based on stars, futurists use data and trends.

Not Astrology

Can refer to both professionals and enthusiasts who speculate about the future.

Profession or Hobby

Connects to a specific art movement from the past, not modern artists.

Historic Art Movement

Futurist art is full of energy and motion, aiming to capture the dynamism of life.

Energetic, Dynamic Art

Futurist art doesn't depict the future; it emphasizes speed and technology in contemporary life.

Not Future-Themed

Related to thinking or designing with the future in mind, not just new.

Future-Oriented Perspective

Implies an innovative or cutting-edge approach to concepts or designs.

Innovation Implication

 use if you were to put on your futurist hat and roll the clock forward I don't know it's a twenty years when all the good thinking that you're introducing to the world and others are it plays out what does education look like then does it happen mainly in homes is it still happen in schools with teachers and classrooms how does it happen do you

The Khan Academy PIPE...

 like a runaway train builds on itself and the Terminator scenario is that this artificially artificial intelligence this algorithm is going to wake up it's going to achieve symptoms and it's going to turn on us but that's I think an erroneous way of looking at it some of the more optimistic futurists in Silicon

What is Technological...

 this is the podcast series where i sit down with a ted speaker and we get to dive much deeper into their ideas than was possible during their ted talk my guest this episode is yuval harari he's a historian and a futurist and his books have wowed so many people because of the sweeping way in which they

Yuval Noah Harari...

 something like a hoverboard I think science fiction at its best will have such a tantalizing idea that's just out of reach of your technology that you will stimulate research of people who want to create that future that had just been imagined what futurists tend to get

Neil on Back to the...

 One way futurists arrive at their predictions is by analyzing movements and trends in society, and charting the paths they are likely to follow into the future with varying degrees of probability. Their work informs the decisions of policymakers and world leaders,

How science fiction can...

 for the green revolution? Universities? Forget about it! Government? Forget about it! It will be entrepreneurs, and they're doing it now. There's a lovely story that I read in a futurist magazine many, many years ago. There was a group of experts who were invited

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...

 The tech magazines told us a tsunami was coming. And only the investors who hired the best scenario-planners and futurists would be able to survive the wave. And so the future changed from this thing we create together in the present

How to be "Team Human"...

 First, a word from one of the many great minds who will be accompanying us on this journey. A message from the great author, historian and futurist Yuval Harari. Yuval Climate change is about inequality.

How we can turn the tide...

 now we put a lot of money into education and I really think that education is the most important thing to get right for the country to have as strong a futurist should have fact we have in the stimulus

Mosquitos, malaria and...

 My mom just wanted me to have difficulty boarding planes in the 21st century. She foresaw America's turn toward nativism. She was a black futurist. Thurston is a British name, but we are not British.