futurism

(noun)

An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions; (originated by F.T. Marinetti, among others).

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Examples of futurism in the following topics:

  • The Future of Population and Urbanization

  • The Future of Culture

    • Examine how the process of globalization is predicted to influence the future of culture.

  • Commodities and Other Futures

    • Commodity "futures" are contracts to buy or sell certain certain goods at set prices at a predetermined time in the future.
    • Futures traditionally have been linked to commodities such as wheat, livestock, copper, and gold, but in recent years growing amounts of futures also have been tied to foreign currencies or other financial assets as well.
    • Overall, futures activity rose to 417 million contracts in 1997, from 261 million in 1991.
    • Speculating in commodity futures is not for people who are averse to risk.
    • While professional traders who are well versed in the futures market are most likely to gain in futures trading, it is estimated that as many as 90 percent of small futures traders lose money in this volatile market.

  • The Future of the Eurozone

  • Futures and Forward Contracts

    • First class of derivatives is futures and forward contracts.
    • However, futures differ from forwards.
    • On the other hand, a futures contract is standardized.
    • As the date of the delivery approaches for a futures contract, the futures contract market price will converge to the spot price.
    • A buyer never purchases a futures contract if the market price of the futures contract exceeds the spot price.

  • Verb Tense: Past, Present, and Future

    • The future tense is used to express circumstances that will occur in the future.
    • The different future tenses are simple future, future progressive, future perfect, and future perfect progressive.
    • The simple future expresses an action that will take place in the future.
    • The future progressive expresses a continuous action which will take place in the future.
    • The future perfect expresses a completed action that will have taken place in the future.

  • Future Value of Annuity

    • The future value of an annuity is the sum of the future values of all of the payments in the annuity.
    • The future value of an annuity is the sum of the future values of all of the payments in the annuity.
    • Provided you know m, r, n, and t, therefore, you can find the future value (FV) of an annuity.

  • The Relationship Between Present and Future Value

    • Present value (PV) and future value (FV) measure how much the value of money has changed over time.
    • The future value (FV) measures the nominal future sum of money that a given sum of money is "worth" at a specified time in the future assuming a certain interest rate, or more generally, rate of return.
    • The value does not include corrections for inflation or other factors that affect the true value of money in the future.
    • If there are multiple payments, the PV is the sum of the present values of each payment and the FV is the sum of the future values of each payment.

  • Types of Exchange Hedges: Forward, Money Market, and Future

    • Forwards, money market instruments, and futures are common instruments used to manage exchange risk.
    • The party agreeing to buy the underlying assets in the future assumes a long position, and the party agreeing to sell the asset in the future assumes a short position.
    • In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality for a price agreed upon today (the futures price or strike price) with delivery and payment occurring at a specified future delivery date.
    • The party agreeing to buy the underlying asset in the future, the buyer of the contract, is said to be long, and the party agreeing to sell the asset in the future, the seller of the contract, is said to be short.
    • The same mechanism functioning in forward contracts applies to futures.

  • Future Value, Multiple Flows

    • Finding the future value (FV) of multiple cash flows means that there are more than one payment/investment, and a business wants to find the total FV at a certain point in time.
    • These payments can have varying sizes, occur at varying times, and earn varying interest rates, but they all have a certain value at a specific time in the future.
    • The first step in finding the FV of multiple cash flows is to define when the future is.
    • Then, simply add all of the future values together.
    • The FV of multiple cash flows is the sum of the future values of each cash flow.