Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science, art and practice of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Futures studies (colloquially called "Futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and what is novel. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.[1]
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- Association of Professional Futurists: Professional organization for futurists
- Buckminster Fuller Institute: Organization that investigates breakthrough strategies for achieving sustainable future.
- Club of Amsterdam Think tank involved in publishing about preferred futures
- Cyber-Salon Forum DiscussionApplied Foresight Network Forum
- The Future Chronicles Futurist commentary on select technologies and trends since 1996
- Future Converged Provides predictions on the future of technology with emphasis on how these technologies relate to each other
- Futures Studies (ASF list): Global Graduate Programs and Resources
- Futurist (ASF definition): Twelve developmental types of futures thinking
- International Futures (IFs): Futures model forecasting over 1,000 variables.
- Global Futurists Podcast series examines topics about the future.
- Principia Cybernetica: Links on future development
- World Future Society: Non-profit organization for those interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future
- Metafuture.orgFocuses on alternative civilizational futures, futures of X case studies and discussions on epistemology and methodology.
- Wikia has a wiki on this subject at The Future Wikia
- Egypt Future Studies Center: Egypt Future Studies Center
- http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw Journal of Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan
- Future News Network Provides a look at our knowable future
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