Flashcards: Futurologists

Kevin Warwick, FIET, FCGI (/ˈwɔːrɪk, ˈwɒr-/; born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Фёдоров; surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov") (June 9, 1829 – December 28, 1903) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism.

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George Friedman (born February 1, 1949) is a geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs.

Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987), was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.

John Naisbitt (born January 15, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies.

Ray Hammond is a British author and futurist.

Raymond Spencer Rodgers (1935–2007) was a British-born American educator and futurist who spent most of his adult life in Canada.

Richard Clive Neville (16 December 1941 – 4 September 2016) was an Australian writer and social commentator who came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Walter De Brouwer ([də ˈbrʌuər]; born May 9, 1957) is a Belgian-born Internet and technology entrepreneur and semiotician.

Patrick Dixon is an author and business consultant, often described as a futurist, and chairman of the trends forecasting company Global Change Ltd.

Gerald Celente (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance.

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George Franklin Gilder (born November 29, 1939) is an American investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.

Rogers graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a Bachelors in Creative Writing and minor in Physics, with additional training in finance and management at Stanford Business School’s Executive Program.

Ossip Kurt Flechtheim (March 5, 1909 – March 4, 1998) was a German jurist, political scientist, author, futurist, and a humanist.

William Gilpin (October 4, 1813 – January 20, 1894) was a 19th-century US explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American West.

Peter Schwartz (born 1946) is an American futurist, innovator, author, and co-founder of the Global Business Network (GBN), a corporate strategy firm, specializing in future-think and scenario planning.

Paul Laffoley (August 14, 1935 – November 16, 2015) was an American visionary artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts, represented by Kent Fine Art in New York.

Paul Raskin is the founding President of the Tellus Institute, which has conducted over 3,500 research and policy projects throughout the world on environmental issues, resource planning, scenario analysis, and sustainable development.

Walter Greiling (5 September 1900 – 1986, Neu-Isenburg) was a German chemist and futurologist.

Daniel Barben (born June 10, 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland) is professor of Science, Technology and Society Studies at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society Studiesat Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Thorkil Kristensen (9 October 1899 – 26 June 1989), was a Danish politician, finance minister, professor in national economy, and futurist.

Christopher "Chris" Bradley Riddell (born February 1981) is a futurist and digital technology expert.

Gabriel Rothblatt, born 1982, is a technoprogressive political activist, a 2014 congressional candidate, and a writer and speaker in the futurist and transhumanist movements.

A native of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, O’Shea graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012.

Betty Sue Flowers is the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Erika Cheetham (7 July 1939 – 3 May 1998) was an English writer, best known for her controversial interpretations of Nostradamus' writings.

Erwin Raphael McManus (August 28, 1958) is an author, futurist, filmmaker, and designer.

Francisco Javier "Frank" Duarte (born c. 1954) is a Chilean-born laser physicist and author/editor of several well-known books on tunable lasers and quantum optics.

Born as Faith Plotkin, she later legally changed her name to "Faith Popcorn.

Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

Julie Friedman is an American social entrepreneur, public speaker and futurist.

Hans Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Graeme Codrington is a South African author, futurist and strategy consultant, and a founding director of strategic insights firm, TomorrowToday.

Philip E. Tetlock (born 1954) is a Canadian-American political science writer, and is currently the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is cross-appointed at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences.

Richard Duncan is chief author of the Olduvai theory, a prediction of rapidly declining world energy production.

Huw Price (born 17 May 1953) is an Australian philosopher, currently the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Joanne Pransky is an American robotics expert and futurist who provides professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices.

Frederik Lodewijk Polak (21 May 1907, Amsterdam – 17 September 1985, Wassenaar) was one of the Dutch founding fathers of futures studies, perhaps best known in the field for theorising the central role of imagined alternative futures in his classic work The Image of the Future.

Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan (Arabic: نايف الروضان‎‎; born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author.

Tim Cannon is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and biohacker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Anne Lise Kjaer (born 15 March 1962 in Denmark) is a London-based futurist and keynote speaker.

Orrin H. Pilkey (born September 19, 1934) is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University, and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) which is currently based at Western Carolina University.

Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (February 19, 1921 – October 29, 1965) was an American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author.

Xanadu 2.0 is a large mansion owned by Bill Gates that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.

Joël de Rosnay (born 12 June 1937), Ph.

John Michael Greer (born 1962) is an American author who writes on the environment, various religions and occult topics.

Renzo Provinciali (born Parma, Italy 14 March 1895 died Rome, 2 October 1981), a lawyer by profession, was a notable Italian anarchist, Futurist and journalist.

Benjamin Peter Bernard Way (born 28 September 1980) is a serial entrepreneur and best selling author best known for his appearance on Secret Millionaire, The Startup Kids and as a cast member on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, he started his first company at the age of 15.

Meredith Wooldridge Thring, FREng, FIMechE, FIET, FInstP, FIChemE, FEI (17 December 1915 – 15 September 2006) was a British inventor, engineer, futurologist, professor and author.

Richard Slaughter is a scholar and writer in the field of futures studies, applied foresight and social innovation.

Robert Theobald (June 11, 1929 – November 27, 1999) was a private consulting economist and futurist author.

Ross Dawson (born 1962) is an Australian author, futurist, entrepreneur and former stockbroker.

Theodore Modis (born 1943) is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant.

Mitchell Joachim (pronounced /jo-ak-um/; born February 3, 1972) is acknowledged as an innovator in ecological design, architecture, and urban design.

Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American diplomat, educator, and author.

Mahdi Elmandjra (Arabic: مهدي المنجرة‎‎‎; March 13, 1933 – June 13, 2014) was a Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist.

Mark D. Pesce (born 1962) (/ˈpɛʃiː/ PESH-ee) is an author, researcher, engineer, futurist and teacher.

Alastair MacDonald Taylor (March 12, 1915 – October 15, 2005) was a Canadian historian, filmmaker, United Nations official, professor of geography and political studies, and interdisciplinary thinker.

Alex Steffen (born c. 1968) is an American futurist who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet.

Ari Wallach (born 1974) is Founder and CEO of Synthesis Corp.

Arthur B. Shostak (born May 11, 1937), is an American sociologist and futurist, and former professor of sociology at Drexel University.

Arthur M. Harkins (March 8, 1936 – May 17, 2016) was an American futurist who was an associate professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and faculty director of the Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies program at the University of Minnesota (UMN).

Darla Jane Gilroy is a British academic and former fashion designer.

David Houle (born 1948) is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Shift Age.

Deane Winston Hutton is an Australian television presenter and futurist.

James Canton (born April 29, 1951) is a futurist, author, entrepreneur, CEO & Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures.

Jason Luis Silva (born February 6, 1982) is a television personality, filmmaker, and public speaker.