Futures studies | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Futures studies


00:00:59 1 Overview
00:04:30 2 History
00:04:38 2.1 Origins
00:07:09 2.2 Early 20th Century
00:11:51 2.3 Mid-Century Emergence
00:15:53 2.4 Further development
00:19:26 3 Probability and predictability
00:22:10 4 Methodologies
00:28:03 4.1 Futures techniques
00:29:40 4.2 Shaping alternative futures
00:32:14 4.3 Weak signals, the future sign and wild cards
00:34:52 4.4 Near-term predictions
00:35:52 4.5 Trend analysis and forecasting
00:36:02 4.5.1 Mega-trends
00:36:30 4.5.2 Potential trends
00:36:48 4.5.3 Branching trends
00:37:17 4.5.4 Life-cycle of a trend
00:37:57 4.5.5 Life cycle of technologies
00:38:53 5 Education
00:42:25 6 Applications of foresight and specific fields
00:42:36 6.1 General applicability and use of foresight products
00:43:47 6.2 Design
00:44:50 6.3 Imperial cycles and world order
00:46:12 6.4 Education
00:47:54 6.5 Science fiction
00:49:46 6.6 Government agencies
00:52:07 6.7 Risk analysis and management
00:52:58 7 Research centers
00:53:08 8 Futurists
00:54:36 8.1 Notable futurists
00:54:45 9 Books
00:54:54 9.1 APF's list of most significant futures works
00:55:19 9.2 Other notable foresight books
00:55:35 9.3 Periodicals and journals
00:55:44 10 Organizations
00:55:53 10.1 Foresight professional networks
00:56:14 10.2 Public-sector foresight organizations
00:56:37 10.3 Non-governmental foresight organizations



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Futures studies (also called futurology) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. Futures studies (colloquially called "futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.Unlike the physical sciences where a narrower, more specified system is studied, futures studies concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The methodology and knowledge are much less proven as compared to natural science or even social science like sociology and economics. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science and sometimes described by scientists as pseudoscience.