Futurists

Futurology (a term futurists despise), or future studies (the term most prefer), got its start when optimism was easy, and the World Future Society was in the center of it all. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Peter Davidson sez, A wonderful Berkeley website/gallery featuring some of the fantastic oddities and plans of futurists from the first half of the 20th century about the far-off world of 1980! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Many so-called futurists have attempted to predict what we'll all be driving five, 10 or even 15 years from now, but there seem to be more questions than answers. ❋ Jeremy Korzeniewski (2010)

Historical "futurists" vision of what the internet was involved pneumatic tubes, and was so severely limited by their viewpoint that they could not imagine the sort of interactivity that would overturn the paradigms of information delivery and authority like it has today. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

There are folks called "futurists" out there who claim ability to predict the future. ❋ Steve Perry (2007)

There are plenty of pessimistic futures depicted by science fiction authors and 'futurists'. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Analysts, military strategists, acquisition planners, and even "futurists" are wrestling with the meaning and consequences of the Information Age. ❋ James P. Wade (N/A)

Australian future scientists or 'futurists' Richard Watson and Ross Dawson prepared an extinction timeline showing the likely FAILS by 2050: ❋ Ilker (2010)

One thing most 'futurists' agree on is that the ultimate 'end game' of technology appears to be the conversion of all matter in the solar system into machine parts and computational elements. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term 'futurists' most commonly describes authors, consultants, organizational leaders and others who engage in interdisciplinary and systems thinking to advise private and public organizations on such matters as diverse global trends, plausible scenarios, emerging market opportunities, and risk management. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jamais Cascio was ranting on Twitter the other day about weakass "futurists" using Second Life for presentations and examples. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"futurists" and their soft, fluffy visions of cloud computing? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He's an essentially stock countercultural type -- he likes to discourse on "Monte Hellman, Semina Culture, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, the Mafia's blackmailing of J. Edgar Hoover over erotic secrets (resulting in the bogus amplification of Cold War fear and therefore the whole of our contemporary landscape), Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists, Chet Baker," etc., etc., etc. -- and his recurrent cluster headaches and other mental problems make him seem merely pathetic, not heroic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have no doubt that there is enough collective wisdom within the Social Security administration and the available pool of brilliant economists and financial futurists within our country to derive those alternatives. ❋ Rev. Dr. Cindi Love (2011)

I have a blog (associated with my website), three Twitter accounts (I am a technology professional in government, so I have one account for that personality, I have my own personal Twitter account with my real name, and I am one of many futurists who twitter occasionally on the joint account ‘futurefeed.’), a LinkedIn account, and a regular FaceBook page (no fan page so far). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But despite the forecasts of futurists, a paperless world has not arrived. ❋ Brian Vastag (2011)

My son, [Benny], is becoming a futurist, and that makes me happy. His [overview] is wise and [practical], and he's in love with what can be. ❋ Loveday (2004)

That [rake] is futuristic! ❋ Clethe Carson (2003)

a [futurist] will think [maby] of space craft of how they would be in the future and he might think of what if u make the metal with certain magnetic properties to allow it to move around in earth magnetically field and a ion pusher thing to move it around and some kinda engine pulses of high blast of energy to push even faster in space and with [metal will] be sensitive to the sun for more energy and he will think of steps to first think of how to research it and how it could benefit the earth with such a device ❋ I_wana_be_a_futurist_but_im_17 (2010)

That [spade] is of [klingon] [architect], boy it's futuristic. ❋ Jerry Fishburn (2003)

[Tim]: Yo, you see that new futuristic hub video? [Josh]: FUCK [NAH]! ❋ Somebody Who's In The U.S. (2019)

Gucci: Ayy Dogg check out dem shades [Yung] LA be having. [Jucie]: Yeah, he be on some [futuristic swag]. Some 2021 shit mayne. Gucci: Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ❋ LeremyLenny (2009)

"[Swag] is [dead], I [got that] Futuristic Lingo." ❋ Dermot Sutherland (2011)

It would have taken the futurists an [eternity] to create the neo-futurist art that [computers] have made possible in [the 21st century]. ❋ Etan Ilfeld (2009)

Dictator Kim is asking [comrade Trump] whether he’d recommend any ex-lecturer from his now-defunct [Trump University], who might be keen to work as a [pi futurist] for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology on a three-year contract, with high prospects of securing tenure if local researchers’ submissions grace the pages of math periodicals and journals. ❋ Covido (2022)

"Did you read that book about a [futuristic dystopia] yet?" "Yeah, pretty depressing. That boy got his whole genetic line in jeopardy because all of the identical boys were perfect and orderly except for him. He could have been [euthanized] and killed just because he didn't fit in. [Too bad too sad], be actually dies at the end." "Wait...what?" "The government's crazy idea of a utopia is terrible in that book." "Indeed, let's not even dwell on the topic of the already ruined world all that much." ❋ FSRueful (2019)