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Futures studies, futures research, futurism research, futurism, or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social/technological advancement, and other environmental trends; often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and work in the future.
Futures studies (also called futurology) – study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History ...
Futurology (also called futures studies and futurism) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, while futurology considers the future.
Futures techniques used in the multi-disciplinary field of futurology by futurists in Americas and Australasia, and futurology by futurologists in EU, include a diverse range of forecasting methods, including anticipatory thinking, backcasting, simulation, and visioning.
social studies, wrote The Image of the Future: Freeman Dyson: 1923: 2020: nuclear engineering, disarmament advocate, ideas of Dyson sphere, nuclear space-flight Gaston Berger: 1896: 1960: cognitive science: Gene Roddenberry: 1921: 1991: creator of the Star Trek franchise. Genevieve Bell: 1968 living cultural anthropologist and technologist ...
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