List of futurologists

"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:

NameBirthDeathField or notable accomplishment
Abishur Prakash1991livinggeopolitical futurist, author
Adrian Berry19372016writer, journalist
Alan Marshall1969livingacademic, environmentalist, social scientist, writer
Aldous Huxley18941963writer of Brave New World, psychedelic prophet
Alvin & Heidi Toffler1928/19292016/2019wrote Future Shock, and sequels, technological singularity
Anders Sandberg 1972 living human enhancement
Andrey Korotayev1961livingmathematical modeling of global future[1]
Anne Lise Kjaer1962livingfuture trends, consumer mindsets and mobile technologies
Archibald Low18881956space
Arthur C. Clarke19172008writer
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 Jouvenel19031987economist
Bill Joy1954livingUNIX, technology dangers
Bruce Sterling1954livingliving design, information technology
Buckminster Fuller18951983architect, cosmologist, whole-systems thinker, designer/inventor
Carl Sagan19341996astronomer
Clement Bezold1948livinghealthcare
Dandridge M. Cole19211965space colonization
Daniel Bell1919 2011 "Post-Industrial Society"
Daniel Burrus1947livingfuturist, business advisor, author
Danila Medvedev1980livingtranshumanist
Darla Jane Gilroylivingfuturist, trendspotting
David Passig1957livinganticipatory anthropology
Deane Hutton1941livingcommunicator
Dennis Gabor19001979holography
Dirk HR Spennemannlivingspace heritage
Donald Prell19242020venture capital, strategic foresight, technological singularity
Donella Meadows19412001systems thinking, leverage points, sustainability
Douglas Engelbart19252013hypertext, mouse, interactive computing
Douglas Rushkoff1961living[3][4][5] media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian, early cyberpunk culture, open source
Edward Bellamy18501898wrote Looking Backward: 2000–1887 , a utopia about the future year 2000, economic reorganization
Eliezer Yudkowsky 1979 living friendly artificial intelligence
Erich Jantsch19291980book The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution
Faith Popcorn1948livingpopcorn report
FM-203019302000transhumanist, essayist
Fred Polak19071985social studies, wrote The Image of the Future
Freeman Dyson19232020nuclear engineering, disarmament advocate, ideas of Dyson sphere, nuclear space-flight
Gaston Berger18961960cognitive science
Gene Roddenberry19211991creator of the Star Trek franchise.
Genevieve Bell 1968 living cultural anthropologist and technologist
George Dvorsky1970livingtranshumanist
George Friedman1949livinggeopolitics
George Gilder1939livingsociety
George Orwell19031950writer (wrote 1984)
Gerald Celente1946livingtrend forecaster
Gerard K. O'Neill19271992envisioned space colonization
Gianroberto Casaleggio19542016politics, internet
Grace Hopper19061992women in computing, COBOL
Graeme Codrington1970livingGenerational theory, megatrends
H. G. Wells18661946writer, historian, among the first to think of himself as a futurist
Hans Moravec1948livingrobotics, AI
Harlan Cleveland19182008diplomacy
Hazel Henderson19332022cooperative economics
Herman Kahn19221983military strategist, econo-technical predictions
Hugo de Garis1947livingAI
Hugo Gernsback18841967invented the term "science fiction", wrote the novel Ralph 124C 41+, started science fiction magazines. After him the Hugo Awards are named.
Isaac Arthur1980livingLong term future of the space industry and colonization, physicist, YouTube personality
Isaac Asimov19201992writer of science and science fiction, created the Three Laws of Robotics.
Jacque Fresco19162017architect, resource economics, model maker, envisioner of cornucopian world
James Hughes1961livingethics
James Lovelock19192022environmentalist, Gaia hypothesis, Global warming theorist
Jean Fourastié19071990economist
John McHale19221978artist, sociologist
Jeremy Rifkin1945livingeconomist, science and tech. critic of various sorts, writer
Jerry FishendenlivingMicrosoft future
Jim Datorlivingpolitics
Joanne Pransky19592023robotics
Joël de Rosnay1937livingmolecular biology
John Naisbitt19292021wrote Megatrends
José Luis Cordeiro1962livingengineer, economist, and author of La Muerte de la Muerte
Jules Verne18281905previsioned aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel
Karel Čapek18901938fiction writer who invented the word robot
Karl Marx18181883predicted societal and economic development on the basis of dialectical materialism[6]
Kevin Kelly1952livingfounding executive editor of Wired magazine and author of multiple futurology books
Kevin Warwick1954livingrobotics
Kim Stanley Robinson1952livingnovelist known for Mars Trilogy, 2312 (novel), Aurora (novel), and the forthcoming 'New York, 2140'
Krafft Arnold Ehricke19171984space colonization
Leonardo da Vinci14521519engineer, inventor, scientist
Lidewij Edelkoort1950livingfashion
M. G. Gordon19151969social studies
Magda Cordell McHale19212008painter, educator
Mahdi Elmandjra19332014economist, sociologist
Mark Pesce1962livinginventor, writer, engineer
Mark Satin1946livingpolitical theory
Mark Stevenson1971livingauthor, entrepreneur, geo-technology
Marshall Brain1961livingrobotics, transhumanism
Marshall McLuhan19111980communications
Martin Ford1963livingartificial intelligence, robotics, author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Matthew Simmons19432010peak oil, oil reserves
Max More 1964 living Extropy Institute
Meredith Thring19152006inventor
Michael Crichton19422008writer; implications of progress in science
Michael RogerslivingNew York Times futurist; MSNBC commentator
Michel Saloff Coste 1955 living art, Club of Budapest
Michio Kaku1947livingstring field theory, expositor
Mitchell Joachim 1972 living ecological design

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Natasha Vita-More 1950 living Humanity+
Neal Stephenson1959livingnovelist known for Snow Crash, Anathem, and Seveneves
Nicholas Negroponte1943livingOLPC, new technological media
Nick Bostrom1973living[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 Tesla18561943energy, inventor
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov18291903renewable energy, life extension/immortality, tranhumanism, space colonization
Orrin H. Pilkey1934livingcritic of environmentalists , coastline erosion
Ossip K. Flechtheim19091998political scientist
Patrick Dixon1957livingbusiness
Peter C. Bishop1944livingeducator - strategic foresight
Peter Diamandis 1961 living Singularity University
Peter Newman1945livingsustainability, transport systems, cars and cities
Peter Schwartz1946livingChina, climate change, business, technology
Phil Salin19491991cyberspace and the Internet
Philip K. Dick19281982writer who produced the novels behind Blade Runner and Minority Report
Ray Kurzweil1948livingAI, transhumanism, technological singularity, life extension
Raymond Spencer Rodgers19352007telesphere, food-chain
Renzo Provinciali18951981anarchist
Richard Feynman19181988physicist, originator of concept of nanotechnology
Richard Moran1950livingsocial scientist
Richard Neville19412016author, reporter
Richard Slaughter1940livingsociologist
Robert A. Heinlein19071988novelist
Robert Anton Wilson19322007psychonaut, novelist, essayist
Robert Jastrow19252008NASA scientist, author, spaceflight
Robert Jungk19131994journalist
Robert Theobald19291999economics
Robin Hanson1959livingprediction markets, singularity, transhumanism
Roger Bacon12201292Franciscan Friar, Natural Philosopher
Ross Dawson1962livingfuturist, speaker, author
Scott Smith1967living"flatpack futures"
Sohail Inayatullah1958livingpolitical scientist
Stanisław Lem19212006novelist
Stephen Hawking 1942 2018 astrophysics, cosmology [14][15]
Stewart Brand1938livingcognitive science, environmental philosophy, whole systems
Sydney Jay Mead19332019visual futurist
Terence McKenna19462000philosopher, psychonaut, speaker, ethnobotanist
Ted Nelson1937livingwriter, philosopher, creator of hypertext concept and Xanadu project
Theodore Modis1943livingbusiness, physics
Thomas Frey1954livingfuturist speaker, technology, future jobs, future of work, future crimes, future of transportation, unanswerable question
Tim Cannon1979livingtechnology, transhumanist
Timothy Leary19201996psychologist, psychedelics enthusiast, transhumanist, space migration, life extension
Vannevar Bush18901974analog computing, envisioned Memex, similar to what the internet is now
W. Warren Wagar19322004historian
Walt Disney19011966filmmaker, businessman,[16] created "Tomorrowland" and a concept Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (referred to by acronym EPCOT)
Walter Greiling19001986chemist, sociologist
Warren Ellis1968livingwriter
Wendell Bell19242019sociology
William Gibson1948livingnovelist (cyberpunk)
William Gilpin18131894politician
Willis Harman19181997sociocultural evolution
Ziauddin Sardar1951livingMuslim thought

See also

References

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