List of futurology topics
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/* 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.
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*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 Filosofía<!-- 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>
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== Futurologists ==
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* [[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]]
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* [[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]]
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* [[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]]
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==Organizations==
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* [[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]]
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* [[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]]
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===Research centers===
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* [[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>
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==Books==
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* ''[[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]]''
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* ''[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]''
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===Periodicals and Monographs===
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* [[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>
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* [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>
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==References==
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==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]]