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Futurism (Italian: Futurismo [futuˈrizmo]) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.
The term "futurist" most commonly refers to people who attempt to understand the future, sometimes called trend analysis.Futurists include authors, consultants, thinkers, organizational leaders and others who engage in interdisciplinary and systems thinking to advise private and public organizations on such matters as diverse global fads and trends, possible scenarios, emerging market ...
Futurism was an important influence upon Lewis's Vorticist philosophy. [16] Vorticism, named by Pound, was founded with the publication of Blast to which Pound was a major contributor. An advertisement promised that Blast would cover "Cubism, Futurism, Imagisme and All Vital Forms of Modern Art". Blast was published only twice, in 1914 and 1915.
Immortalism, a moral ideology based upon the belief that radical life extension and technological immortality is possible and desirable, and advocating research and development to ensure its realization. [94] Libertarian transhumanism, a political ideology synthesizing libertarianism and transhumanism. [86]
Futurism is a modernist avant-garde movement in literature and part of the Futurism art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It made its official literature debut with the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's Manifesto of Futurism (1909).
If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation. [1] Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned " retro styles " with futuristic technology, retrofuturism explores the themes of tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects ...
Futurism must be distinguished from prophecies that the right will prevail: these attempt to infer history from ethics, rather than ethics from history, and are therefore historicism in the normal sense rather than moral historicism. He also attacks what he calls "Historism", which he regards as distinct from historicism. By historism, he means ...
He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology , robotics , and ...