In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where anyone who chose not to follow God up until the Rapture and was therefore left behind ( according to Pre-Tribulation doctrine, not Mid-or Post-Tribulation teaching ) will experience worldwide hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75 % of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place.

The poet as graphic artist: " proletarian art " in a civil war era poster by the futurism | futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, published by Narkompros.

The Hudson Institute is an American conservative not for profit think tank founded in 1961, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.

Through his father, he is related to futurist Herman Kahn.

BosWash is a name coined by futurist Herman Kahn in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical United States megalopolis extending from the metropolitan area of Boston to that of Washington, D. C.

On May 30, 1922, at the age of 21, Antheil sailed for Europe to make his name as " a new ultra-modern pianist composer " and a " futurist terrible ".

Richard Buckminster " Bucky " Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

FM-2030 ( October 15, 1930, Brussels – July 8, 2000, New York ) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* September 24 – Gregory Peter Panos, American futurist, writer, inventor, virtual reality expert, human simulation visionary

Other buildings of that time include the Grand Hotel ( by G. Lorenzi ) with some guest rooms furnished with futurist furniture by Depero, and the " R. Sanzio " Primary School built in 1931 – 34 and designed by Adalberto Libera.

in Futurist, v17 n3 pp. 24 – 29 Jun 1983, reprinted in Cornish, Edward and World Future Society ( 1985 ) Habitats tomorrow: homes and communities in an exciting new era: selections from The futurist, pp. 14 – 19

* Jacque Fresco: ( 1916 – present ) self-educated structural designer, philosopher of science, concept artist, educator, and futurist.

Bruno Jasieński (; born Wiktor Zysman, Klimontów, Congress Poland, 17 July 1901 – died 17 September 1938, in Butyrka prison, Moscow ) was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union.

* Robert Theobald ( 1929 – 1999 ), an economist and futurist

* Carlo Carrà ( 1881 – 1966 ), Italian futurist painter

William Gilpin ( October 4, 1813 – January 20, 1894 ) was a 19th century U. S. explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American West.

Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel ( 31 October 1903, Paris – 1 March 1987 ) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.

" Universology was first advocated for the study of the interconnecting principles and truths of all domains of knowledge by Stephen Pearl Andrews, a 19th century utopian futurist and anarchist.

* Fortunato Depero, futurist artist and one of the founders of the futurist movement in Italy, was born in Fondo in 1892, close to Trento.

It was announced that Hawke had signed on to Universal's futurist thriller Vigilandia and the Spierig brothers ' science fiction film Predestination.

In 1912, Marc met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and futurist method was a major influence on Marc's work.

In addition to " futurist ", Ornstein was also sometimes labeled — along with Cowell and others in their circle — an " ultra-modernist.

" Popularizing universologic science was a life's work for 19th century intellectual Stephen Pearl Andrews, a futurist utopian.

" The Abolition of Work " was a significant influence on futurist and design critic Bruce Sterling, who at the time was a leading cyberpunk science fiction author and called it " one of the seminal underground documents of the 1980s ".

The most influensive futurist for Lithuanian writers was Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

He was a leading NASA scientist, populist author and futurist.

Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s-based at the Architectural Association, London-that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects.

This piece, rather than being on futurist themes like Le pas d ' acier, was based on a Biblical story: L ’ enfant Prodigue ( Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Bible ).

Johnny 5 was designed by Syd Mead, the " visual futurist " famous for his work on Blade Runner and Tron.

The group was inspired by midwestern funk, especially the music of George Clinton, along with European synthesizer pioneers Kraftwerk, Japanese electro pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, English electropop, Italo disco, and futurist literary influences such as Alvin Toffler's books Future Shock and The Third Wave.

In 1928 he serialised the work which secured his reputation, Palę Paryż, a futurist novel depicting the collapse and decay of the city and social tensions within the capitalist societies in general, in the leftist L ' Humanité newspaper in a French version, Je brûle Paris ( I Burn Paris ), which was quickly translated into Russian.

During Full Fathom Five's earlier years a lot of their supplied press photography was in the form of substituted photos featuring collections of five or more people, usually old Russian or eastern European photographs and much of their poster art was inspired by early propaganda or futurist imagery.

The experience led directly to the first futurist manifesto, which achieved an extraordinary coup-de-theâtre when he persuaded the editor of Le Figaro to publish the entire manifesto on the front page, February 20, 1909.

Perhaps the modern interpretation of the word " utopia " is to blame when the Renaissance man and futurist Jacque Fresco says ... he doesn't want to call his life work, The Venus Project, a utopia.

Today Asmara is worldwide known for its early twentieth century Italian buildings, including the Art Deco Cinema Impero, " Cubist " Africa Pension, eclectic Orthodox Cathedral and former Opera House, the futurist Fiat Tagliero Building, neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic Cathedral, and the neoclassical Governor's Palace.

The Age of Spiritual Machines is a book by futurist Ray Kurzweil about the future course of humanity, particularly relating to the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on human consciousness.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone " who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life ", and estimates the Singularity will occur around 2045.

When the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti visited London in 1910, as part of a series of well-publicised lectures aimed at galvanizing support across Europe for the new Italian avant-garde, his presentation at the Lyceum Club, in which he addressed his audience as " victims of .... traditionalism and its medieval trappings ," electrified the assembled avant-garde.

*" Plastic dynamism ", a term used by the Italian futurist art movement to describe a concept pertaining to an object's motion, both intrinsic and relative to its environment.

In 1921 Jasieński published one of his first futurist works, Nuż w bżuchu ( Nayf in the Abdomen, with intentionally wrong spelling of title ) and, together with Stanisław Młodożeniec became known as one of the founders of the Polish Futurist movement.

Influenced by Hargrave's own artistic taste, an ultra-modern ' futurist ' style of design became general, and the robes, regalia, tents and other items of decorative art, often of an extremely high standard, represent an extraordinary ' democratisation ' of the avant-garde art of the day.

Although Newport Center's International Style design was mostly seen through to completion, Pereira broke his own rule by adding the futurist Pacific Mutual building in 1972, which became one of Newport Beach's most well-known architectural landmarks.

Soon after the publication of Iron Pause, he became heavily involved in the Siberian futurist movement known as Creation along with artists such as Nikolay Aseyev and David Burlyuk.