List of futurology topics 3040051 220705912 2008-06-21T04:34:32Z Zhitelew 7325020 /* Futurologists */ [[Danila Medvedev]] Topics related to [[futurology]] include: ==Concepts== * [[15 Global Challenges]] * [[Actionable futurism]] * [[Agentization]] * [[Applied Foresight Network]] * [[Calculating Demand Forecast Accuracy]] * [[Clarke's three laws]] * [[CPFR]] * [[Causal Layered Analysis]] * [[Digital library]] (initiatives) * [[Emerging technologies]] * [[End of civilization]] * [[Eschatology]] * [[Forecasting]] * [[Foresight (future studies)|Foresight]] * [[Foresight Exchange]] * [[Future]] * [[Future energy development]] * [[Futures techniques]] * [[Global Consciousness Project]] * [[Hubbert peak]] * [[Hubbert peak theory]] * [[Integral Futures]] * [[Kardashev scale]] * [[Malthusian catastrophe]] * [[Memetics]] - ''Mapping MentorshipART [[Meme]]s'' ** [[2010#Fiction|2010]]: [[Talk:List_of_future_studies_topics#Avatar_.22futures_studies.22_2010|Muli-media AVATARS]] (Discussion) ** [[DIKW]] - [[Harlan Cleveland]] ** [[Futures_techniques#Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis|FMEA]]: [[Failure mode and effects analysis]] ** GDSS: [[Group_decision_support_systems#See_also|Group decision support systems]] ** [[Interdependence]] *** [[Social network analysis]] - ''[http://www.answers.com/topic/thinklets thinkLets]'' *** [http://www.educationfutures.com/storytech/ StoryTech] decision support frameworks ** [[Involution (philosophy)]] (Anticipatory thinking) * [[Moore's Law]] * [[Morphological analysis]] * [[Neofuturism]] * [[Normative futures]] * [[Omega point]] * [[Optimism bias]] * [[Planetary Phase of Civilization]] * [[Planning]] * [[Prediction]] * [[Prediction market]] * [[Preferred futures]] * [[Psychohistory (fictional)]] * [[The Race of the Future]] * [[Reference class forecasting]] * [[Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth]] * [[State of the Future]] * [[Strategic Foresight]] * [[Systems thinking]] * [[Technological singularity]] * [[Technology]] * [[Technology forecasting]] * [[Theory of Constraints]] * [[Thought experiment]] * [[Timeline of the future in forecasts]] * [[Transhumanism]] * [[Trendspotting]] * [[Twelve leverage points]] * [[Ultimate fate of the universe]] ==Organizations== * [[Acceleration Studies Foundation]] * [[Association of Professional Futurists]] * [[Australia Foresight Institute]] * [[Bakken Museum]] * [[Club of Amsterdam]] * [[Club of Rome]] * [[Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies]] * [[Finland Futures Academy]] * [[Foundation for the Future]] * [[The Futures Academy]] * [[Futures Group International]] * [[Futures Research Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] * [[Futures Research Centre]] * [[Futures Studies Department]] * [[Futuribles]] * [[Global Change Ltd]] * [[Global Scenario Group]] * [[Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies]] * [[Institute for Futures Research]] * [[Institute for the Future]] * [[Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective Strategy and Organization]] * [[Mankind 2000]] * [[Millennium Project]] * [[Moroccan Association of Future Studies]] * [[Naval Postgraduate School]] * [[Pakistan Futuristics Institute]] * [[RAND Corporation]] * [[Shaping Tomorrow]] * [[World Future Society]] * [[World Futures Studies Federation]] ===Academic programs=== :''See also'': [[Acceleration Studies Foundation]]'s [http://www.accelerating.org/gradprograms.html annotated list] of 10 primary and 60+ secondary graduate futures studies programs. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> *Australia: [[Australian Catholic University]] *Australia: [[Swinburne University of Technology]] *Argentina: [[Universidad Nacional de La Plata]]<ref>[http://der.jursoc.unlp.edu.ar/ Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales - Universidad Nacional de La Plata<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Australia: [[Curtin University of Technology]]<ref>http://handbook.curtin.edu.au/units/13/13629.html</ref> *Australia: [[University of Sunshine Coast]] *Canada: [[Futurismos]]<ref>[http://futurism.freepgs.com/ FreePgs.com - Unknown Domain<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Colombia: [[Universidad Externado de Colombia]]<ref>http://www.uexternado.edu.co</ref> *Colombia: [[Uniandes]]<ref>[http://filosofia.uniandes.edu.co/ Universidad de los Andes|Departamento de Filosof&#237a<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Czech Republic: [[Charles University of Prague]] *Finland: [[Finland Futures Academy]], FFRC, [[Turku School of Economics and Business Administration]]<ref>http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu/tva</ref> *France: [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers|CNAM]] / LIPSOR<ref>[http://www.cnam.fr/lips/ LIPSOR : Laboratoire d’Investigation en Prospective Stratégie et Organisation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Germany: Institut für Zukunftsforschung und Technologiebewertung, Berlin *Hungary: [[Corvinus University of Budapest]]<ref>[http://www.bkae.hu/jkut/ Tanszék: Jövőkutatás Tanszék<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *India: [[Devi Ahilya University]] [http://www.sfsp.dauniv.ac.in/] [M. Tech. Futures Studies and Planning] *India: [[University of Kerala]]<ref>[http://www.keralauniversity.edu/universitydepartments.htm#ncvzx University Departments<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Italy: [[Gregorian University]]<ref>[http://www.unigre.it Università Gregoriana - Home Page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Mexico: [[Monterrey Institute of Technology]]<ref>[http://www.mty.itesm.mx/dhcs/deptos/ri/maestrias/prospectiva/Prospectiva.html Maestría en Prospectiva Estratégica<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Pakistan: [[Pakistan Futuristics Institute]] *Romania: [[Babes-Bolyai University]] *Russia: [[Moscow State University]] *South Africa: [[Stellenbosch University]]<ref>[http://www.ifr.sun.ac.za Institute For Futures Research :::::: Home<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Taiwan: [[Tamkang University]]<ref>http://www.ed.tku.edu.tw/develop</ref> *Taiwan: [[Fo Guang University]]<ref>[http://www.fgu.edu.tw/~future/ ¦ò¥ú¤j¾ÇªÀ·|¾Ç°|¥¼¨Ó¾Ç¨t©Ò<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *USA: Global Options<ref>[http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFSTopics.HTML Introduction to Future Studies Topics<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/ Global Options Home Page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *USA: [[University of Hawaii]]<ref>http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/</ref> *USA: [[University of Houston]]<ref>[http://tech.uh.edu/futureweb/ Human Development & Consumer Science<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *USA: [[Stanford University]]<ref>[http://foresight.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Foresight and Innovation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, a program that seems both critical and normative because of its work with futurists and designers. *USA: [[Regent University]] <ref>[http://www.regent.edu/global/msf Regent University: School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship - Academics - MSF - Home<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> </div> == Futurologists == {{Main|Futurist|List of futurologists}} {{Multicol}} * [[Joel A. Barker]]<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=Barker+%22Five+Regions+of+the+Future%22+WFS.org Barker]</ref> * [[Arthur C. Clarke]]<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9E07E4DC143AF932A35757C0A9649C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fC%2fClarke%2c%20Arthur%20C%2e "Compressed Data; On a Futurists' Forum, Money Backs Up Predictions," ''The New York Times'', April 1, 2002]</ref> * [[Edward Cornish]]<ref>[http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/futuredition/fe_archive/fe_08_10archive_05.asp TAI]</ref> * [[Jeff Cornish]]<ref>[http://www.wfs.org/futupmay06.htm Cornish]</ref> * [[Scott W. Erickson]]<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=Erickson+%22Five+Regions+of+the+Future%22+WFS.org Erickson]</ref> * [[Frank Feather (business futurist)|Frank Feather]]<ref>[http://www.future-trends.com Feather]</ref> * [[Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT]]<ref>[http://www.progective.com/fr/progective/equipe/fabiennegouxbaudiment/ GOUX-BAUDIMENT]</ref> * [[Herman Kahn]] * [[Arthur Harkins]]<ref>[http://education.umn.edu/EdPA/people/Harkins.html Harkins]</ref> * [[Stephen Hawking]]<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,545653,00.html Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6158855.stm Our species must move to another planet]</ref> * Sohail Inayatullah<ref>[http://www.metafuture.org/articles.htm Metafuture]</ref> * [[Earl C. Joseph, Sr.]]<ref>[http://www.earljoseph.com/Biography.htm Joseph]</ref> * [[Richard Lamb]]<ref>[http://www.trendwatcher.com Lamb]</ref> * [[David Passig]]<ref>[http://www.passig.com Passig]</ref> * [[John Tomsyck]]<ref>[http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=1035022856 Tomsyck]</ref> *[[Natasha Vita-More]] * [[Joseph Voros]]<ref>[http://www.swin.edu.au/business/stafflist/staff/jvoros.html Voros]</ref> * [[Ray Kurzweil]] * [[Kim Stanley Robinson]] * [[Alex Steffen]] * [[Alvin Toffler]] * [[Arthur Harkins]]<ref>[http://education.umn.edu/EdPA/people/Harkins.html Harkins]</ref> * [[Aurelio Peccei]] * [[Bertrand deJouvenel]] * [[Bill Joy]] * [[Charles Babbage Institute|Charles Babbage]] * [[Clem Bezold]] * [[Danila Medvedev]] * [[Daniel Bell]] * [[David Absalam]] * [[David Passig]]<ref>[http://www.passig.com Passig]</ref> * [[Kevin Warwick]] * [[Derek Woodgate]] * [[Eamonn Kelly]] * [[Earl Bakken]] * [[Earl C. Joseph, Sr.]]<ref>[http://www.earljoseph.com/Biography.htm Joseph]</ref> * [[Edgar Morin]] {{Multicol-break}} * [[Edward Cornish]]<ref>[http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/futuredition/fe_archive/fe_08_10archive_05.asp TAI]</ref> * [[Eric Garland]] * [[Erich Jantsch]] * [[Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT]]<ref>[http://www.progective.com/fr/progective/equipe/fabiennegouxbaudiment/ GOUX-BAUDIMENT]</ref> * [[Frank Feather (business futurist)|Frank Feather]]<ref>[http://www.future-trends.com Feather]</ref> * [[Fred Polak]] * [[Gaston Berger]] * [[George Kubik]] * [[Harlan Cleveland]] * [[Hazel Henderson]] * [[Herman Kahn]] * [[Homer A. McCrerey]] * [[Hugo de Garis]] * [[Ian Baker]] * [[Irma Wyman]] * [[Jacque Fresco]] * [[James Burke (science historian)|James Burke]] * [[James Martin]] * [[Jaron Lanier]] * [[Jay Gary]] * [[Jeff Cornish]]<ref>[http://www.wfs.org/futupmay06.htm Cornish]</ref> * [[Jeremy Rifkin]] * [[Jim Dator|James Dator]] * [[Joel A. Barker]]<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=Barker+%22Five+Regions+of+the+Future%22+WFS.org Barker]</ref> * [[John Brunner (novelist)]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_%28novelist%29]</ref> * [[John McHale (artist)|John McHale]] * [[John Naisbitt]] * [[John Renesch]] * [[John Smart (futurist)|John Smart]] * [[John Tomsyck]]<ref>[http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=1035022856 Tomsyck]</ref> * [[John Zerzan]] * [[Jonathan Despres]]<ref>[http://future.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jonano Jonano]</ref> * [[Joseph Voros]]<ref>[http://www.swin.edu.au/business/stafflist/staff/jvoros.html Voros]</ref> * [[Lynn Elen Burton]] * [[Mahdi ElMandjra]] * [[Mária Törőcsik]] {{Multicol-break}} * [[Max More]] * [[Michael E. Arth]] * [[Michael Walzer]] * [[Michel GODET]] * [[Natasha Vita-More]] * [[Oliver Markley]] * [[P. Alexandré Gagne]] <ref>[http://www.millennialproductions.com/ca/staff.html Dyer]</ref> * [[Patrick Dixon]] * [[Paul Raskin]] * [[Paul Saffo]] * [[Peter Bishop]] * [[Peter Schwartz (futurist)|Peter Schwartz]] * [[Grace Hopper]] * [[Ray Kurzweil]] * [[Retzbach Roman]]<ref>[http://www.future-institute.com/2008/ Retzbach]</ref> * [[Richard A. Slaughter]] * [[Richard Lamb]]<ref>[http://www.trendwatcher.com Lamb]</ref> * [[Robert A. Heinlein]] * [[Robert Anton Wilson]] * [[Robert Heilbroner]] * [[Robert Jungk]] * [[Robert Prechter]] * [[Scott W. Erickson]]<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=Erickson+%22Five+Regions+of+the+Future%22+WFS.org Erickson]</ref> * Sohail Inayatullah * [[Srinivas Rao]] * [[Stewart Brand]] * [[Stephen Hawking]]<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,545653,00.html Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6158855.stm Our species must move to another planet]</ref> * [[Strauss and Howe]] * [[Summa_Technologiae|Stanislaw Lem]] * [[Ted Kaczynski]] * [[Thorkil Kristensen]] * [[Wendell Bell]] * [[Wendy Schultz]] * [[Willis Harman]] * [[Gerard O'Neill]] {{Multicol-end}} ==Organizations== {{Multicol}} * [[Acceleration Studies Foundation]] * [[Applied Foresight Network]] * [[Association of Professional Futurists]] * [[Australian Futures Foundation]] * [[Club of Amsterdam]] * [[Club of Rome]] * [[Futuribles]],<ref>[http://www.futuribles.fr Futuribles - Revue - Formation - Etudes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Global Business Network]] * [[Global Scenario Group]] * [[Hudson Institute]] * [[International Institute of Forecasters]] * [[Long Now Foundation]] {{Multicol-break}} * [[Millennium Project]] * [[NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts]] * [[RAND Corporation]] * [[Shaping Tomorrow]] * [[School of Futures Studies and Planning]] * [[Swedish Morphological Society]] * [[Tellus Institute]] * [[The Arlington Institute]] * [[UK Futures Analysts Network]] * [[World Future Society]] * [[World Futures Studies Federation]] {{Multicol-end}} ===Research centers=== <div style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> * [[Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies]] [http://www.cifs.dk/] * [[Futures Studies Department]], [[Corvinus University of Budapest]] * [[Department of Futures Studies]], [[University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India]]<ref>[http://www.keralauniversity.edu/universitydepartments.htm#ncvzx University Departments<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Futures Research Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences]]<ref>[http://www.budapestfutures.org/jkb/ MTA Jövőkutatási Bizottság - nyitó lap<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Finland Futures Research Centre]], [[Turku School of Economics and Business Administration]] * Foresight and Futurology Unit, a [[BT Group]] [[think tank]] * [[Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies]], [[University of Hawaii at Manoa|University of Hawai`i at Mānoa]] * [[Institute for Alternative Futures]], [[Alexandria, Virginia]] * [[Institute for the Future]], [[Palo Alto, California]] * [[Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective Strategy and Organization]], [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers|CNAM]] Paris<ref>[http://www.cnam.fr/lipsor LIPSOR : Laboratoire d’Investigation en Prospective Stratégie et Organisation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington DC, <ref>[http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html Welcome to the National Intelligence Council (NIC)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Tellus Institute]], Boston MA * UK Horizon Scanning Centre, London<ref>[http://www.foresight.gov.uk/HORIZON_SCANNING_CENTRE Welcome to the Horizon Scanning centre<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[The Futures Academy]], [[Dublin Institute of Technology]], Ireland * [[SUBITO! Research&Futures]], Europe/Norway<ref>[http://www.subito.as SUBITO! Research&Futures<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Zukunftsinstitut]], Europe/Germany <ref>[http://zukunftsinstitut.de/about_us.php Zukunftsinstitut | Wissen für die Wirtschaft von morgen<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[proGective]], Europe/France <ref>[http://www.progective.com proGective - futures-oriented solutions<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[World Futures Studies Federation]], world <ref>[http://www.wfsf.org Welcome to the World Futures Studies Federation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Instiute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment]], Europe/Germany <ref>[http://www.izt.de/en/ IZT - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung: Homepage<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Future-Institute]], Europe/Germany <ref>[http://www.future-institute.com/2008/ FUTURE-INSTITUTE international | Zukunftsinstitut, Trend-Academy & Future-University - future studies, mega-trends, forsights, scenarios, timelines, utopia, visions<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> </div> ==Books== {{Multicol}} * ''[[The Age of Spiritual Machines]]: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence'' * ''[[Bold New World]]'' * ''[[Brave New World]]'' * ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' * ''[http://www.mediagab.com/product.asp?asin=0970710402 Future Frequencies]'' * ''[[Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias| Future Primitive]]'' * ''[[Future Shock]]'' * ''[[Futurewise]]'' * ''[http://www.gtinitiative.org/documents/Great_Transitions.pdf Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead]'' * ''[[Limits to Growth]]'' {{Multicol-break}} * ''[http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=1576751635&PCS=BKP&Type=SB&SUBSEL=BKP.CURR&Title=BK+Currents Macroshift]'' * ''[[Our Final Hour]]'' * ''[http://movietrailers.studiostore.com/product/GNVST0001/s.vHkFRs6D Phoenix: A Tale of the Future]'' * ''[[The Revenge of Gaia]]'' * ''[[The Singularity is Near]]: When Humans Transcend Biology'' * ''[[The Skeptical Environmentalist]]'' * ''[[The Third Wave (book)]], Alvin Toffler * ''[http://www.amazon.com/dp/1425945775 Visions of the Future in the Last Century]'' * ''[http://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?cp=&page=Book&id=53184&lang=en&Languages=2&blang=en&list=1 Analyzing and Modeling Global Development]'' {{Multicol-end}} ===Periodicals and Monographs=== {{Multicol}} * [[Five Regions of the Future]]<ref>[http://www.fiveregionsofthefuture.com/region/entries/BookReviewOfFiveRegionsOfTheFuture ISBN 1591840899] - [[Joel A. Barker]] and [[Scott W. Erickson]]</ref> * Forecasting * [[Foresight (publication)|Foresight]]<ref>[http://www.managementfirst.com/strategy/journals/foresight.php/ Emerald for Managers has changed<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * FutureOrientation<ref>http://www.futureorientation.com/</ref> * Future Survey * [http://www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/30422/ Futures] * [[Futures Research Quarterly]]<ref>[http://www.wfs.org/frq.htm Futures Research Quarterly Main Page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * Futuribles * [[Futurics (publication)|Futurics]]<ref>[http://www.mnfuturists.org Minnesota Futurists<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Futurist (publication)|Futurist]]<ref>[http://www.wfs.org/futurist.htm THE FUTURIST magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> {{Multicol-break}} * [http://www.gtinitiative.org/default.asp?action=43 GTI Paper Series] * [[Integral Futures]]<ref>''[http://www.swin.edu.au/afi/research/integral_futures.htm ISBN 0415302692] - [[Joseph Voros]]''</ref> * [[International Journal of Forecasting]]<ref>[http://www.forecasters.org/ijf/ International Institute of Forecasters<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * International Review of [[Strategic Management]] * [[Journal of Futures Studies]]<ref>[http://www2.tku.edu.tw/~tddx/jfs/ Journal of Futures Studies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * Long Range Planning * [[State of the Future]] * [[Technological Forecasting and Social Change]] * [[WFSF Bulletin]]<ref>[http://www.wfsf.org/ Welcome to the World Futures Studies Federation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> {{Multicol-end}} ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==See also== * [[List of futures scholars]] * [[Timeline of fictional future events]] * [[List of Theory of Constraints topics]] * [[List of basic transhumanism topics]] [[Category:Anticipatory thinking]] [[Category:Futurology]]