Futurists explore not only time, but also space. The futurist's openness to the world is an openness of mind. Yet, it's this very sense of and respect for the unknown and unknowable that makes my ideal futurist modest about predicting the future. Overconfidence in one's ability to predict the future can lead to arrogance, orthodoxy, and inflexibility. However, a complete reluctance to make predictions is avoidance of the futurist's responsibility to play seer.
Time explorers necessarily take risks, but calculated risks.
The overzealous risk-taker can be a danger to the species, willing to gamble everything for one something. Any vision of the future must be conditioned by a clear sense of our potential for irreversible self-destruction. In weighing the relative risks and benefits of various future scenarios, my ideal futurist is able to see the big picture. The final two dimensions of the FQ deal with self-definition. These aren't genetic characteristics.