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	media freedom - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
		Despite their utopian conclusions, the prophecies of the futurologists were used by conservative parties to argue for the adoption of neo-liberal economic policies by the major industrialised countries.
		Although the futurologists had predicted the imminent advent of direct democracy, neo-liberal governments used their prophecies to defend the creation of greater market competition.
		Echoing the prophecies of the futurologists, they claimed that the application of their deregulation and privatisation policies within the electronic media would encourage the rapid construction of an interactive cable network.
	www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk /theory-mediafreedom14.html (1812 words)

	futurologists Incorporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The paper is the militaristic philosophical demon-child of futurologists Alvin and Heidi...
		There is a large number of futurologists like Naisbitt who analyse what they call mega-trends in the...
		futurologists as Megatrends author John Naisbett to be a permanent change in the society, and not a passing fad.
	f.3-incorporation.com /F/futurologists%20Incorporation.html (487 words)

	Sermons from Seattle - Sermons - Series C
		Futurologists are those people who have an uncanny ability to look into the future of the human race.
		Common to the vision of many futurologists is the awareness of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Common to many futurologists is the fear and the expectation of a nuclear holocaust.
	www.sermonsfromseattle.com /series_c_futurologists_and_their_vision_for_the_future.htm (3027 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| An eye to the future
		Futurologists - people who study the future - are trying to do just that.
		Futurologists, or futurists as they sometimes like to be called, tend to deal in the medium to long-term.
		Futurologist Dr James Bellini, for example, sets his sights 20 years or so ahead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4577334.stm (990 words)

	Technological Singularity...Inanot.com
		Futurologists have speculated on a wide range of possible technologies that might play a role in bringing about the Singularity.
		The potential dangers of molecular nanotechnology are widely known even outside of futurologist and transhumanist communities, and many Singularitarians consider human-controlled nanotechnology to be one of the most significant existential risks facing humanity (refer to the concept of Grey Goo for an example of how this risk could become reality).
		These technologies, while unlikely, are often used by some futurologists (such as Ray Kurzweil) as a "proof" of the Singularity -- even if seed AI and molecular nanotechnology are not invented within the XXI° century, other technologies may potentially bring about the Singularity.
	www.inanot.com /technologicalsingularity.html (2002 words)

	media freedom - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
		For the futurologists, the crisis of Fordism was proof of the correctness of their analysis.
		Because of their technological determinism, the futurologists were fascinated by the electronic media.
		In the future, the futurologists believed that the introduction of satellite and cable television technologies would greatly increase the influence of the electronic media.
	www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk /theory-mediafreedom13.html (646 words)

	Article Abstracts: #40 (Stanislaw Lem)
		First, futurologists are insufficiently neutral with regard to their prophecies; they confuse their role as describers of objective tendencies with their role as advisers to agents of power.
		Secondly, futurologists generally concentrate only on the material-technological base of civilization, ignoring the "imponderables," the values and norms that motivate authentic human action.
		Thirdly, futurologists have not developed a sufficiently rigorous theory to control their pragmatic tendency to value only what can be most easily measured.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a40.htm (2719 words)

	Marketing Per Suasion Newsletter
		Another noteworthy futurologist, John Naisbitt, gained comparable recognition with his book Megatrends (1982) which identified ten critical trends that would distinguish the burgeoning information society from the prior industrial one.
		Therefore, futurologists carefully monitor many areas—e.g., economic, geopolitical, technological, business, workplace, consumer, investor, and societal—for early indications of emerging trends and their attendant opportunities.
		Their vigilance and insight are rewarded when they are able to connect the dots and reap the rewards of early participation in an emerging trend.
	www.suasionnewsletter.com /04feb2.htm (686 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| The tomorrow people
		In a world of rapidly evolving technology, human nature remains a constant, and futurologists ground their predictions about breakthroughs in nano, bio and nuclear technology in the emotional and the irrational.
		The job description 'futurologist' is a mad professor-style title that gives him licence to roam wherever his curiosity takes him, attending some 100 conferences at home and abroad each year.
		With the future bearing down on us with such velocity, even futurologists are finding it hard to predict what life might be like in 30 years time, let alone in 50 or a 100.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /technology/story/0,16199,1532337,00.html (2196 words)

	futurologists Consolidating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Future, to be attended by over 4,000 social engineers, cybernetics experts and futurologists from all the think tanks...
		There are also a number of independent designers and futurologists who I admire for their ability to...
		There are some shortcomings of futurologistsâ forecasts, which are mostly based upon a future...
	f.3-consolidating.com /F/futurologists%20Consolidating.html (425 words)

	Type I, II, III Civilizations
		Futurology has deservedly earned this unsavory reputation because every scientific" poll conducted by futurologists about the next decade has proved to be wildly off the mark.
		For example, polls of futurologists have shown that they take known technology and simply double or triple it to predict the future.
		Polls taken in the 1920s showed that futurologists predicted that we would have, within a few decades, huge fleets of blimps taking passengers across the Atlantic.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/occultic/civili.html (1416 words)

	Mastering Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A futurologist identifies what Wall Street calls a "secular trend" (secular here referring to long-term trends that last decades, not cyclical or seasonal trends) and uses imagination, science, mathematics, statistics and common sense to "foresee" where that trend will lead.
		So both the futurologists and imagineers have "succeeded" in changing the future because both combine the three levels of abstract thinking that are the defining signature of sf/f's corner of the Astral — "What if.
		The futurologists have warned us away from the course we were on, and the imagineers have given us other choices.
	www.simegen.com /reviews/rereadablebooks/columns/1197.html (4359 words)

	Leading speaker bureau motivational business speakers futurologists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Grasping the implications of change is one thing, knowing how to prepare yourself and your organisation for them is quite another.
		We, at CSA, can provide you with the futurologist who can predict where your future is heading and how best to get ready for it.
		Unprecedented consequences for business are emerging out of the shift from industrial to cultural production; his informed insights on how this will affect your organisation are unparalleled.
	www.speakers.co.uk /csaWeb/news/futurologists.htm (209 words)

	Chapter Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When issue-oriented forecasts are combined in an attempt at comprehensiveness, variations of the Delphi Method--in which experts are polled as to their views--appear most often used.
		Although most future assessments produced today can best be considered forecasts, the term is frequently disparaged by futurologists of the burgeoning "futures industry" who favor the use of scenarios.
		Forecasts, along with the futurologists themselves, are subject to considerable criticism from policy analysts.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/McNair/mcnair63/63_02.html (1875 words)

	Mystick Krewe of Comatose
		MARTINI-MARIETTA - The entire American space project, futurologists and visionaries such as Carl Sagan, Bucky Fuller, Robert Heinlein - even Arthur C. Clarke himself could never have foreseen that which Comatose hath wrought for this depraved new millennium.
		As the world slept and worked and counted ballots and looked up towards the heavens, yearning for the day when everyone, everywhere, could step out into the street with a "go-cup", the quiet, strong and brave members of the Krewe of Comatose toiled tirelessly in preparation for getting blasted off.
		All citizens are urged to be properly fueled and fired up, and reminded to "lick Bush".
	www.aimeee.com /comatose/2001.html (356 words)

	Desirable Dust - CFO.com
		When peripatetic futurologists such as John Gage of Sun Microsystems really want to impress their audience, they talk about "smart dust".
		The dust in question is made up of tiny, wireless sensors that could be dispersed anywhere—say, over a battlefield to find out where enemy troops are, or whether chemical or biological weapons have been used.
		Mr Pister and his Berkeley colleagues have developed an operating system for their smart-dust motes that lets them form wireless networks without human intervention.
	www.cfo.com /printable/article.cfm/3003282 (1064 words)

	Reason: Studied Stupidity: Respect to Da Ali G Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Is it good or is it wack?" Thus begins a panel discussion featuring two futurologists, an environmentalist, and a creationist.
		When one of the futurologists says in passing, "We’re Homo sapiens," Ali G objects: "Hey, I ain’t.
		I don’t do that stuff." Even when the discussion veers into accusations concerning the floater someone left in the toilet backstage, with the creationist adamantly disclaiming responsibility, no one has the temerity to suggest that Ali G cannot be for real.
	www.reason.com /0306/cr.js.studied.shtml (753 words)

	Main Page - Future
		Understand the basic concepts that futurologists must adhere to.
		See how futurologists classify the future into various categories.
		Discover what fellow futurologists have come up with.
	future.wikia.com /wiki/Main_Page (404 words)

	intervenants
		For most people, futurology is not all that different from reading science fiction as you sit over a drink in the café.
		The first problem confronting futurologists is thus one of communication.
		Getting our forecasts accepted presupposes that futurologists are willing to reveal their ambitions, putting the emphasis on the intelligibility of their scenarios not on the degree of certainty that can be attached to a forecast.
	www.unesco.org /aforum/dialogues/d9-trad.html (1576 words)

	Futures studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Futures studies has become the common term in the English-speaking world.
		Futurologists exercised and applied Strategic Foresight for forecasting alternative futures.
		While forecasting -- i.e., attempts to predict future states from current trends -- is the most common way for the lay person to think about the future, professional scenarios often rely on "backcasting" -- i.e., asking what changes in the present would be required to arrive at alternative future states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Future_studies (3337 words)

	Pentagon-sponsored climate report sparks hullabaloo in Europe / But new ice age unlikely, Bay Area authors of study say
		All of which is annoying both to Pentagon officials and to Schwartz, who is best known as co-author of the 1999 book "The Long Boom," which painted a rosy picture of the world's future economy.
		One big problem: both the Emeryville futurologists and Pentagon officials stress the report's scary-sounding projections are highly improbable and extremely unlikely, as Schwartz said Tuesday.
		Singling out The Observer for criticism, Schwartz emphasized the report is "not a suppressed secret report, it is not a prediction of imminent (doom).
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/25/MNG0O57R4R1.DTL (816 words)

	Schumi-e
		After presenting their views, the five invited experts will discuss the subject with representatives of the 58 countries elected to the Board by UNESCO's General Conference.
		Journalists will be able to attend the debate (via relay to Room XI), which brings together some of today's greatest thinkers and futurologists.
		This thematic debate has been organized at the initiative of the Chairperson of the Executive Board, Aziza Bennani, Morocco's Ambassador to UNESCO, with the help of UNESCO's Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences, organizer of the Twenty-First Century Talks series.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/2002/02-avis14e.shtml (548 words)

	Telecoms 'dominated innovation' in 2003 - ZDNet UK News
		Some of the greatest advances in the IT sector this year have come in the field of high-speed networking, experts at BT Exact said on Thursday.
		According to a group of the telco's top technologists and futurologists, the areas of mobile working using Wi-Fi, broadband, and IP networking all saw very significant progress in 2003.
		Having been three of the best-utilised new technologies of the year, BT Exact is predicting that they will spawn a surge of useful applications during this decade.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /communications/wireless/0,39020348,39118661,00.htm (512 words)

	Beyond Self Improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Scholars probing the roots of denominations are studying how to recover the spiritual strength of these movements which began in a blaze of religious experience.
		Even futurologists, scientists, and business leaders are admitting that the moral dilemmas created by technology force us back to religion, both for ethical guidance and for courage to face the future.
		In the church, the zealous activism of the 1960s has been overtaken by a new interest in evangelism, worship, prayer, and contemplation.
	www.goodnewsmag.org /library/articles/lovelace-nd85.htm (2139 words)

	OpinionJournal - How Others See U.S.
		They would have claimed that some assassins are after Al Gore.
		Witch-doctors, pastors, palm readers, and futurologists would all have stepped into the matter to make some uncanny predictions.
		If President Clinton were a Nigerian, he too would have deemed it fit to make some white noise.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/others/?id=65000589 (1136 words)

	Zinos.com - eZine digest and database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The future - at least according to a team of MIT futurologists, hired by the cinematic genius - is the captive of embarrassingly personalized and disturbingly intrusive, advertising.
		The future - at least according to a team of MIT futurologists, hired by the cinematic genius - is the captive of embarrassingly personalized and disturbingly intrusive, mostly outdoor, interactive advertising.
		The way Internet advertising has crumbled lately, it may well take 50 years to get there.
	www.zinos.com /f/z/scan/se=AR004772/sp=view_article/rs=yes/go.html (1236 words)

	Physical Biosciences Division at Berkeley Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Division Head Jay Keasling participated in the first of four roundtable discussions about how technology is shaping our future.
		In a global initiative, CNN has gathered some of the world's leading futurologists in genetics, stem cells, robotics and cybernetics to examine the ways science is working to fix, augment and duplicate the human body.
		Originating from Singapore, the show originally aired on CNN International on June 15.
	pbd.lbl.gov (326 words)

	Are we on our way back to the Dark Ages?
		His study will be published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
		Most futurologists say technology is developing at exponential rates.
		Moore's law, for example, foresaw chip densities (for which read speed and memory capacity) doubling every 18 months.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-06/ns-awo062905.php (626 words)

	Meeting the Demands of Earth
		To better understand the numerous perspectives on the challenges facing the planet, the European plastics industry and the European Space Agency (ESA) recently sought the views of Europe's top futurologists, including experts in information technology, architecture, the environment and philosophy.
		Central to the discussion were the impacts and demands of an exponentially growing global population, mankind's rapidly increasing technological capabilities, together with the widening gulf between the developed and underdeveloped nations.
		The need for suitable, affordable housing for a growing population
	www.americanplasticscouncil.org /space/earth (96 words)

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