futurology
/ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
Systematic forecasting of the future, especially from present trends in society.This skepticism comes from three sources: the limits of futurology, the science of behavioural genetics, and human nature itself....
- Amongst some managers, however, a change of thinking is becoming apparent: a thinking that suggests that futurology is a worthwhile practice.
- Most technological futurology see agents as benign, as obedient slaves who only have our best interests at heart.
Derivatives
futurological
/ adjective ...- Both are informed by the intricate social, political, cultural and economic networks that constitute our historical and futurological worlds.
- Similar ideas run through much futurological and policy work on telecommunications today.
- Those searching for futurological predictions about the explosive growth of Third World conurbations or the latest style trends in architecture will accordingly be disappointed.
futurologist
/ noun ...- And scientific or not, how are these astrologers any worse than the market consultants, futurologists and experts who hog television time telling us - on the basis of market surveys and simulated exercises - how the economy will behave?
- Things that have proved intrinsically popular for a substantial period of time tend not to become obsolete anywhere near as quickly as certain futurologists are wont to predict.
- Scotland's cites, the futurologists reckon, have reached a crest of the consumerist and cultural wave that carried their economies out of the post-industrial era.