User:Wikip rhyre/List of Futurists
This is a list of futurists who are well-known for writing or consulting about future trends, and published scholars who do research and education in futures studies or closely related fields such as forecasting.
It is NOT a list of artists or others related to 20th century art movement futurism (which has its own wikipedia space)
| Name | Birth | Death | Profession | Futures topics | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Aburdene | living | - | conscious capitalism | Patricia Aburdene - Mega Trends | |
| Michael E. Arth | 1953 | living | - | urban design | Michael E. Arth |
| Roy Amara | 1925 | 2007 | scholar | philosopher | - |
| Wendell Bell | - | living | scholar | society | Foundations of Futures Studies |
| Gaston Berger | 1896 | 1960 | scholar | philsopher | - |
| Adrian Berry | 1937 | living | writer, journalist | - | Adrian Berry |
| Clem Bezold | living | research | healthcare | Institute for Alternative Futures | |
| Peter C. Bishop | 1944 | living | scholar | education, Strategic Foresight | University of Houston |
| Marshall Brain | 1961 | living | scholar | robotics, transhumanism | MarshallBrain.com |
| Stewart Brand | 1938 | living | author | cognitive science | Stewart Brand |
| Walter De Brouwer | 1957 | living | OLPC | education | Walter de Brouwer Biography |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890 | 1974 | academic | hypertext, computing | Vannevar Bush |
| Ernest Callenbach | living | author | sustainability | ecotopia | |
| James Canton | living | author | - | - | |
| Jamais Cascio | living | author | ethics | Open the Future | |
| Gerald Celente | living | forecaster | trend forecaster | Gerald Celente's Trends Research Institute | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 2008 | writer | science fiction | The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation |
| Harlan Cleveland | 1918 | 2008 | scholar, author, diplomat | education | The Late Harlan Cleveland on Leadership |
| Stephen Euin Cobb | 1955 | living | author | transhumanist | Web Site |
| Peter Cochrane | 1946 | living | engineering | - | Peter Cochrane |
| Dandridge M. Cole | 1921 | 1965 | engineer | space colonization | Dandridge M. Cole (my grand-hero-pa) |
| Michael Crichton | 1942 | 2008 | writer, producer | implications of progress in science | MichaelCrichton.com |
| Jim Dator | living | scholar, professor | politics | Papers by Jim Dator | |
| Patrick Dixon | 1957 | living | business | - | Global Change |
| Richard C. Duncan | living | systems engineer | peak oil. Olduvai theory | Minnesotans For Sustainability | |
| George Dvorsky | living | marketing executive | transhumanist | Sentient Developments | |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923 | living | physicist | nuclear engineering, disarmament | Freeman J. Dyson's Homepage |
| Lidewij Edelkoort | 1950 | living | designer | fashion trends, forecasting | Edelkoort |
| Mahdi ElMandjra | 1933 | living | scholar | economist, sociologist | Site mahdi elmandjra |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | living | engineer | learning | Douglas Engelbart |
| Jerry Fishenden | living | strategy advisor | technological futures | Jerry Fishenden | |
| Jean Fourastié | 1907 | 1990 | scholar | economist | Site Jean Fourastie |
| Jacque Fresco | 1916 | living | architect | resource economics | The Venus Project Future by Design |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895 | 1983 | inventor | architect, cosmologist | Who is Buckminster Fuller? |
| Thomas Frey | 1954 | living | -- | business, innovation, education, libraries | DaVinci Institute |
| Dennis Gabor | 1900 | 1979 | scholar | holography | Dennis Gabor - Autobiography |
| Hugo de Garis | 1947 | living | scholar, computer scientist | AI | Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis |
| Jennifer M. Gidley | living | scholar, psychologist | educator | President, World Futures Studies Federation | |
| George Gilder | 1939 | living | author, investor | technology, society | Gilder Telecosm Forum |
| William Gilpin | 1813 | 1894 | politician | manifest destiny, forecasting western expansion | William Gilpin |
| Jerome C. Glenn | living | consultant | methodology innovations, futures wheel methodology | Millennium Project | |
| M. G. Gordon | 1915 | 1969 | businessman | social innovations, forecasting | - |
| Arthur Harkins | living | scholar | innovation studies | Arthur Harkins | |
| David H. Holtzman | living | - | technology | David H. Holtzman | |
| James Hughes | living | scholar | ethics | Dr. J. Hughes | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | 1988 | writer | science fiction | Heinlein Society |
| Wayne Horkan | 1970 | living | - | transhumanist | Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic |
| Deane Hutton | living | communicator | - | Deane Hutton | |
| Sohail Inayatullah | 1958 | living | scholar, political scientist | - | Metafuture.org |
| Bob Johansen | living | scholar | forecasting | Johansen IFTF page | |
| Bertrand de Jouvenel | 1903 | 1987 | scholar | economist | Nature 0f Future |
| Bill Joy | 1954 | living | entrepreneur, computer scientist | existential threat | "Why the future doesn't need us" (essay) |
| Robert Jungk | 1913 | 1994 | journalist | future workshop methodology | - |
| Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | military strategist | simulation, game theory | Hudson Institute > Herman Kahn |
| Michio Kaku | 1947 | living | physicist | technologies | Explorations in Science |
| Raymond Kurzweil | 1948 | living | author, entrepreneur | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity | Kurzweil Technologies KurzweilAI.net |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921 | 2006 | writer | - | Official site for the author Stanislaw Lem |
| Jason Ling | 1975 | living | entrepreneur | Social Networking, New Media Technologies and Mobile Technologies | |
| Archibald Low | 1888 | 1956 | inventor, author | technological forecasting | - |
| James Lovelock | 1919 | living | scholar, author | environment | James LOVELOCK's web site |
| Jane McGonigal | living | scholar, author | serious games, alternate reality game, scenarios | Jane's IFTF page | |
| John McHale (artist) | 1922 | 1978 | scholar, artist, author | technology, culture | - |
| Magda Cordell McHale | 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator | - | - |
| Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | scholar | communications | The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan |
| Danila Medvedev | 1980 | living | scientists | transhumanist, future of Russia | Danila Medvedev |
| Theodore Modis | 1943 | living | physicist | business, physics | - |
| Richard Moran | 1950 | living | author | social scientist | |
| Hans Moravec | 1948 | living | scholar | robotics, AI | Hans Moravec home page |
| John Naisbitt | 1929 | living | author | trends | John Naisbitt |
| Nicholas Negroponte | 1943 | living | author, scholar | education, media | Nicholas Negroponte |
| Peter Newman | living | academic, author | sustainability | - | |
| Richard Neville | 1941 | living | author | promoting "futures thinking" | Australian Futures Foundation |
| George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | writer | politics | George Orwell - Complete works |
| Gerard K. O'Neill | 1927 | 1992 | engineer | space colonization | Life of Gerard K. O’Neill |
| Fred Polak | 1907 | 1985 | scholar | social studies | |
| Faith Popcorn | 1948 | living | author, consultant | popcorn report | Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve |
| Joanne Pransky | living | robotics engineer | robotics | World's First Robotic Psychiatrist | |
| Donald Prell | 1924 | living | futurologist | banking and infomation technology | |
| Orrin H. Pilkey | living | scholar | critique of environmentalists | Nicholas School Faculty | |
| Marsha Rhea | living | author | education | Institute for Alternative Futures blog | |
| Jeremy Rifkin | living | author | trends in work & society | www.foet.org | |
| Raymond Spencer Rodgers | 1935 | 2007 | academic | telesphere, food-chain | - |
| Joël de Rosnay | 1937 | living | scholar | molecular biology | - |
| Peter Russell | 1946 | living | author | consciousness | Spirit of Now |
| Ziauddin Sardar | - | living | scholar, editor, author | future of religion | - |
| Peter Schwartz | 1946 | living | business | China, Climate Change, Business, Technology | Global Business Network |
| Matthew Simmons | living | petroleum analyst | peak oil | Simmons & Company International | |
| Richard Slaughter | living | scholar | education, critical futures | Foresight International | |
| John Smart | 1960 | living | acceleration | John Smart Bio | |
| Dirk HR Spennemann | living | scholar | space heritage | Cultural Heritage Management | |
| Meredith Thring | 1915 | 2006 | scholar, author | inventor | - |
| Alvin Toffler | 1928 | living | author, scholar | technological singularity | alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} |
| Natasha Vita-More | 1943 | living | artist, author | transhumanism | - |
| Kevin Warwick | 1954 | living | - | robotics | Kevin Warwick - Home Page |
| FM-2030 | 1930 | 2000 | - | transhumanist |