List of futurologists

Short description: Futures studies influencers

"Futurology" as a term was coined in the twentieth century. What counts under that term has changed over time, as such this list is a jumble, and is intended to be suggestive, not definitive. Notable futurologists include:

Name | Birth | Death | Field or notable accomplishment

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Abishur Prakash | 1991 | living | geopolitical futurist, author
Adrian Berry | 1937 | 2016 | writer, journalist
Alan Marshall | 1969 | living | academic, environmentalist, social scientist, writer
Aldous Huxley | 1894 | 1963 | writer of Brave New World, psychedelic prophet
Alvin & Heidi Toffler | 1928/1929 | 2016/2019 | wrote Future Shock, and sequels, technological singularity
Anders Sandberg  | 1972  | living  | human enhancement
Andrey Korotayev | 1961 | living | mathematical modeling of global future[1]
Archibald Low | 1888 | 1956 | space
Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 2008 | writer
Ash Koosha  | 1985  | living  | Futurist Composer and Producer [2]
Ashis Nandy | 1937  | living  | writer on colonialism
Ben Goertzel | 1966  | living  | artificial general intelligence researcher, OpenCog
Bertrand de Jouvenel | 1903 | 1987 | economist
Bill Joy | 1954 | living | UNIX, technology dangers
Bruce Sterling | 1954 | living | living design, information technology
Buckminster Fuller | 1895 | 1983 | architect, cosmologist, whole-systems thinker, designer/inventor
Carl Sagan | 1934 | 1996 | astronomer
Clement Bezold | 1948 | living | healthcare
Dandridge M. Cole | 1921 | 1965 | space colonization
Daniel Bell | 1919  | 2011  | "Post-Industrial Society"
Daniel Burrus | 1947 | living | futurist, business advisor, author
Darla Jane Gilroy |  | living | futurist, trendspotting
David Passig | 1957 | living | anticipatory anthropology
Deane Hutton | 1941 | living | communicator
Dennis Gabor | 1900 | 1979 | holography
Dirk HR Spennemann |  | living | space heritage
Donald Prell | 1924 | 2020 | venture capital, strategic foresight, technological singularity
Donella Meadows | 1941 | 2001 | systems thinking, leverage points, sustainability
Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | 2013 | hypertext, mouse, interactive computing
Douglas Rushkoff | 1961 | living | [3][4][5] media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian, early cyberpunk culture, open source
Edward Bellamy | 1850 | 1898 | wrote Looking Backward: 2000–1887, a utopia about the future year 2000, economic reorganization
Eliezer Yudkowsky | 1979  | living  | friendly artificial intelligence
Erich Jantsch | 1929 | 1980 | book The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution
Faith Popcorn | 1948 | living | popcorn report
FM-2030 | 1930 | 2000 | transhumanist, essayist
Fred Polak | 1907 | 1985 | 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
George Dvorsky | 1970 | living | transhumanist
George Friedman | 1949 | living | geopolitics
George Gilder | 1939 | living | society
George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | writer (wrote 1984)
Gerald Celente | 1946 | living | trend forecaster
Gerard K. O'Neill | 1927 | 1992 | envisioned space colonization
Gianroberto Casaleggio | 1954 | 2016 | politics, internet
Grace Hopper | 1906 | 1992 | women in computing, COBOL
H. G. Wells | 1866 | 1946 | writer, historian, among the first to think of himself as a futurist
Hans Moravec | 1948 | living | robotics, AI
Harlan Cleveland | 1918 | 2008 | diplomacy
Hazel Henderson | 1933 | 2022 | cooperative economics
Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | military strategist, econo-technical predictions
Hugo de Garis | 1947 | living | AI
Hugo Gernsback | 1884 | 1967 | invented the term "science fiction", wrote the novel Ralph 124C 41+, started science fiction magazines. After him the Hugo Awards are named.
Isaac Arthur | 1980 | living | Long term future of the space industry and colonization, physicist, YouTube personality
Isaac Asimov | 1920 | 1992 | writer of science and science fiction, created the Three Laws of Robotics.
Jacque Fresco | 1916 | 2017 | architect, resource economics, model maker, envisioner of cornucopian world
James Hughes | 1961 | living | ethics
James Lovelock | 1919 | 2022 | environmentalist, Gaia hypothesis, Global warming theorist
Jean Fourastié | 1907 | 1990 | economist
John McHale | 1922 | 1978 | artist, sociologist
Jeremy Rifkin | 1945 | living | economist, science and tech. critic of various sorts, writer
Jerry Fishenden |  | living | Microsoft future
Jim Dator |  | living | politics
Joanne Pransky | 1959 | 2023 | robotics
Joël de Rosnay | 1937 | living | molecular biology
John Naisbitt | 1929 | 2021 | wrote Megatrends
José Luis Cordeiro | 1962 | living | engineer, economist, and author of La Muerte de la Muerte
Jules Verne | 1828 | 1905 | previsioned aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel
Karel Čapek | 1890 | 1938 | fiction writer who invented the word robot
Karl Marx | 1818 | 1883 | predicted societal and economic development on the basis of dialectical materialism[6]
Kevin Kelly | 1952 | living | founding executive editor of Wired magazine and author of multiple futurology books
Kevin Warwick | 1954 | living | robotics
Kim Stanley Robinson | 1952 | living | novelist known for Mars Trilogy, 2312 (novel), Aurora (novel), and the forthcoming 'New York, 2140'
Krafft Arnold Ehricke | 1917 | 1984 | space colonization
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 | 1519 | engineer, inventor, scientist
Lidewij Edelkoort | 1950 | living | fashion
M. G. Gordon | 1915 | 1969 | social studies
Magda Cordell McHale | 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator
Mahdi Elmandjra | 1933 | 2014 | economist, sociologist
Mark Pesce | 1962 | living | inventor, writer, engineer
Mark Satin | 1946 | living | political theory
Mark Stevenson | 1971 | living | author, entrepreneur, geo-technology
Marshall Brain | 1961 | living | robotics, transhumanism
Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | communications
Martin Ford | 1963 | living | artificial intelligence, robotics, author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Matthew Simmons | 1943 | 2010 | peak oil, oil reserves
Max More  | 1964  | living  | Extropy Institute
Meredith Thring | 1915 | 2006 | inventor
Michael Crichton | 1942 | 2008 | writer; implications of progress in science
Michael Rogers |  | living | New York Times futurist; MSNBC commentator
Michel Saloff Coste  | 1955  | living  | art, Club of Budapest
Michio Kaku | 1947 | living | string field theory, expositor
Mitchell Joachim | 1972  | living  | ecological design

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Natasha Vita-More  | 1950  | living  | Humanity+
Neal Stephenson | 1959 | living | novelist known for Snow Crash, Anathem, and Seveneves
Nicholas Negroponte | 1943 | living | OLPC, new technological media
Nick Bostrom | 1973 | living | [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism
Nicolas De Santis  | 1966  | living  | Corporate Visioning, author, tech entrepreneur, founder Opodo
Nikola Tesla | 1856 | 1943 | energy, inventor
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov | 1829 | 1903 | renewable energy, life extension/immortality, tranhumanism, space colonization
Orrin H. Pilkey | 1934 | living | critic of environmentalists [citation needed], coastline erosion
Ossip K. Flechtheim | 1909 | 1998 | political scientist
Patrick Dixon | 1957 | living | business
Peter C. Bishop | 1944 | living | educator - strategic foresight
Peter Diamandis | 1961  | living  | Singularity University
Peter Newman | 1945 | living | sustainability, transport systems, cars and cities
Peter Schwartz | 1946 | living | China, climate change, business, technology
Phil Salin | 1949 | 1991 | cyberspace and the Internet
Philip K. Dick | 1928 | 1982 | writer who produced the novels behind Blade Runner and Minority Report
Ray Kurzweil | 1948 | living | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity, life extension
Raymond Spencer Rodgers | 1935 | 2007 | telesphere, food-chain
Renzo Provinciali | 1895 | 1981 | anarchist
Richard Feynman | 1918 | 1988 | physicist, originator of concept of nanotechnology
Richard Moran | 1950 | living | social scientist
Richard Neville | 1941 | 2016 | author, reporter
Richard Slaughter | 1940 | living | sociologist
Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | 1988 | novelist
Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 | 2007 | psychonaut, novelist, essayist
Robert Jastrow | 1925 | 2008 | NASA scientist, author, spaceflight
Robert Jungk | 1913 | 1994 | journalist
Robert Theobald | 1929 | 1999 | economics
Robin Hanson | 1959 | living | prediction markets, singularity, transhumanism
Roger Bacon | 1220 | 1292 | Franciscan Friar, Natural Philosopher
Ross Dawson | 1962 | living | futurist, speaker, author
Scott Smith | 1967 | living | "flatpack futures"
Sohail Inayatullah | 1958 | living | political scientist
Stanisław Lem | 1921 | 2006 | novelist
Stephen Hawking | 1942  | 2018  | astrophysics, cosmology [14][15]
Stewart Brand | 1938 | living | cognitive science, environmental philosophy, whole systems
Sydney Jay Mead | 1933 | 2019 | visual futurist
Terence McKenna | 1946 | 2000 | philosopher, psychonaut, speaker, ethnobotanist
Ted Nelson | 1937 | living | writer, philosopher, creator of hypertext concept and Xanadu project
Theodore Modis | 1943 | living | business, physics
Thomas Frey | 1954 | living | futurist speaker, technology, future jobs, future of work, future crimes, future of transportation, unanswerable question
Tim Cannon | 1979 | living | technology, transhumanist
Timothy Leary | 1920 | 1996 | psychologist, psychedelics enthusiast, transhumanist, space migration, life extension
Vannevar Bush | 1890 | 1974 | analog computing, envisioned Memex, similar to what the internet is now
W. Warren Wagar | 1932 | 2004 | historian
Walt Disney | 1901 | 1966 | filmmaker, businessman,[16] created "Tomorrowland" and a concept Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (referred to by acronym EPCOT)
Walter Greiling | 1900 | 1986 | chemist, sociologist
Warren Ellis | 1968 | living | writer
Wendell Bell | 1924 | 2019 | sociology
William Gibson | 1948 | living | novelist (cyberpunk)
William Gilpin | 1813 | 1894 | politician
Willis Harman | 1918 | 1997 | sociocultural evolution
Ziauddin Sardar | 1951 | living | Muslim thought

## See also

* Futures studies
* Outline of futures studies
* World Future Society

## References

1. ↑ Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Compact Macromodels of the World System Growth. https://www.academia.edu/32757085.
2. ↑ Miles Bowe (2016-03-02). "Iranian futurist Ash Koosha is pushing electronic music into a virtual reality". Fact Magazine. http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/02/ash-koosha-interview-ninja-tune-virtual-reality/.
3. ↑ "Focus Magazine Issues 23-25". 2002. https://books.google.com/books?id=At7jAAAAMAAJ&q=DOUGLAS+RUSHKOFF+futurist.
4. ↑ "The Silicon Valley Skeptic". https://global.handelsblatt.com/companies-markets/the-silicon-valley-skeptic-522681.
5. ↑ "What will 2015 bring? 4 futurists weigh in". Geektime. http://www.geektime.com/2015/01/06/what-will-2015-bring-5-futurists-weigh-in/.
6. ↑ Shahibzadeh, Yadullah (2016). Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History. New York: Springer. p. 22. ISBN 9781137578259. https://books.google.com/books?id=4olFDAAAQBAJ. Retrieved 2019-05-26. "'Marxism has founded the main pillars of the science of futurology.' [...] Ehsan Tabari, Marksism va shenakht-e ayandah, Donia (Winter 1967)"
7. ↑ "What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?". The New Yorker. 9 June 2016. http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-odds-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation.
8. ↑ Yampolskiy, Roman V. (17 June 2015). Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach. CRC Press. ISBN 9781482234442. https://books.google.com/books?id=ken5CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA145.
9. ↑ Parsons, Paul (16 August 2012). The Rough Guide to Surviving the End of the World. Rough Guides Limited. ISBN 9781409360063. https://books.google.com/books?id=cydGlD0edysC&pg=PT5.
10. ↑ "Review of Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom". http://www.concatenation.org/nfrev/bostrom_superintelligence.html.
11. ↑ Müller, Vincent C. (23 August 2012). Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783642316746. https://books.google.com/books?id=JMyClio8BmUC&pg=PA400.
12. ↑ "What's It All About? on RTE Radio 1, Life, Death & Beyond (Episode 3)". 4 June 2014. https://seanduke.com/2014/06/04/whats-it-all-about-on-rte-radio-1-life-death-beyond-episode-3/.
13. ↑ Yampolskiy, Roman V. 'Leakproofing the Singularity'
14. ↑ Nick Paton Walsh (2 September 2001). "Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking". The Guardian. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,545653,00.html.
15. ↑ "BBC NEWS - UK - Move to new planet, says Hawking". bbc.co.uk. 30 November 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6158855.stm.
16. ↑ Rose, Steve (21 May 2015). "Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney's strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow". https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/21/tomorrowland-disney-strange-utopia-shaped-world-tomorrow.

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