The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to futures studies:
Futures studies (also called futurology) – study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, futures studies considers the future. 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.
15 Global Challenges
Accelerating change
Actionable futurism
Agentization
Calculating Demand Forecast Accuracy
Clarke's three laws
CPFR
Causal Layered Analysis
Coolhunting
Digital library (initiatives)
Emerging technologies
List of emerging technologies
End of civilization
Eschatology
Forecasting
Foresight
Future
Future energy development
Global Consciousness Project
Hubbert peak
Hubbert peak theory
Infinite Bandwdith Zero Latency
Integral Futures
Kardashev scale
Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
Kondratiev wave
Malthusian catastrophe
Memetics – Mapping MentorshipART Memes
2010: Multi-media AVATARS (Discussion)
DIKW – Harlan Cleveland
FMEA: Failure mode and effects analysis
GDSS: Group decision support systems
Interdependence
Social network analysis – thinkLets
StoryTech decision support frameworks
Involution (esoterism) (Anticipatory thinking)
Moore's Law
Morphological analysis
Neofuturism
Normative futures
Omega Point
Optimism bias
Planetary Phase of Civilization
Planning
Prediction
Prediction market
Preferred futures
Psychohistory (fictional)
The Race of the Future
Reference class forecasting
Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
Scenario analysis
State of the Future
Strategic Foresight
Systems thinking
Technological singularity
Technology
Technology forecasting
Theory of Constraints
Thought experiment
Timeline of the future in forecasts
Transhumanism
Twelve leverage points
Ultimate fate of the universe
Anticipatory thinking
Causal layered analysis (CLA)
Environmental scanning
Scenario method
Delphi method
Future history
Monitoring
Backcasting (eco-history)
Cross-impact analysis
Futures workshops
Failure mode and effects analysis
Futures wheel
Technology roadmapping
Social network analysis
Systems engineering
Trend analysis
Morphological analysis
Technology forecasting
Theory U
Academy for Futures Studies, the
The Arlington Institute
Association of Professional Futurists
Australia Foresight Institute
Australian Futures Foundation
Bakken Museum
Club of Amsterdam
Club of Rome
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Finland Futures Academy
Foundation For the Future
The Futures Academy
Futures Group International (formerly part of GRM Futures Group, now part of Palladium International)
Futures Research Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Futures Research Centre
Futures Studies Department
Futuribles,
Global Business Network
Global Change Ltd
Global Scenario Group
Global Scenario Group
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Hudson Institute
Institute for Futures Research
Institute for the Future
International Institute of Forecasters
Long Now Foundation
Kjaer Global Ltd (Anne Lise Kjaer)
Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective Strategy and Organization
Mankind 2000
Millennium Project
Moroccan Association of Future Studies
NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
Naval Postgraduate School
Pakistan Futuristics Institute
RAND Corporation
Devi Ahilya University
Shaping Tomorrow
Strategic Business Insights, Inc.
Swedish Morphological Society
Tellus Institute
UK Futures Analysts Network
World Future Society
World Futures Studies Federation
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies [2]
Futures Studies Department, Corvinus University of Budapest
Department of Futures Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Futures Research Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
Foresight and Futurology Unit, a BT Group think tank
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California
Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective Strategy and Organization, CNAM Paris
National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington DC,
Tellus Institute, Boston MA
UK Horizon Scanning Centre, London
The Futures Academy, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
SUBITO! Research&Futures, Europe/Norway
Zukunftsinstitut, Europe/Germany
proGective, Europe/France
World Futures Studies Federation, world
Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, Europe/Germany
Future-Institute, Europe/Germany
See also: Acceleration Studies Foundation's annotated list of 10 primary and 60+ secondary graduate futures studies programs.
Australia: Australian Catholic University
Australia: Swinburne University of Technology
Argentina: Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Australia: Curtin University of Technology
Australia: University of Sunshine Coast
Canada: Futurismos, OCAD University
Colombia: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Colombia: Uniandes
Czech Republic: Charles University of Prague
Finland: Finland Futures Academy, FFRC, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
France: CNAM / LIPSOR
Germany: Institut für Zukunftsforschung und Technologiebewertung, Berlin
Hungary: Corvinus University of Budapest
India: Devi Ahilya University [3] [M. Tech. Futures Studies and Planning]
India: University of Kerala
Italy: Gregorian University
Mexico: Monterrey Institute of Technology
Pakistan: Pakistan Futuristics Institute
Romania: Babes-Bolyai University
Russia: Moscow State University
South Africa: Stellenbosch University
South Korea: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Taiwan: Tamkang University
Taiwan: Fo Guang University
USA: Global Options
USA: University of Hawaii
USA: University of Houston
USA: Stanford University, a program that seems both critical and normative because of its work with futurists and designers.
USA: Regent University
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Brave New World
The Communist Manifesto
Future Frequencies
Future Primitive
Future Shock
Futurewise
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
Limits to Growth
Macroshift
Our Final Hour
Phoenix: A Tale of the Future
The Revenge of Gaia
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Skeptical Environmentalist
The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
Visions of the Future in the Last Century
Analyzing and Modeling Global Development
Physics of the Impossible
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Y = Arctg X: The Hyperbola of the World Order
Periodicals and monographs
European Journal of Futures Research
Five Regions of the Future
Forecasting
foresight
FutureOrientation
Future Orientation Index
Future Survey
Futures
Futures Research Quarterly
Futuribles
Futurics
Futurist
GTI Paper Series
Integral Futures
International Journal of Forecasting
International Review of Strategic Management
Journal of Futures Studies
Long Range Planning
State of the Future
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
WFSF Bulletin
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