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

Kurzweil is generally recognized as a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, due to his stances on life extension technologies, his efforts to forecast future advances in technology, and his interest in the concept of the technological singularity.

This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990, and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement.

George P. Dvorsky ( born on May 11, 1970 ) is a bioethicist, transhumanist, futurist, and producer of the Sentient Developments blog and podcast.

Cobb is also a game designer, artist, essayist, futurist, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.

Anders Sandberg ( born July 11, 1972, in Solna, Sweden ) is a researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

* Buckminster Fuller, systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist

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

Raymond " Ray " Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948 ) is an American author, inventor and futurist.

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.

" 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 ".

* Ray Kurzweil ( born 1948 ), American author, inventor, and futurist

* Michael A. Rogers, technology pioneer, author and futurist

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.

* Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author, inventor, and futurist

According to The Wall Street Journal, Slim credits part of his ability to " discover investment opportunities " early to the writings of his friend, futurist author Alvin Toffler.

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

* Ray Kurzweil ( born 1948 ), an American inventor, author and futurist

In 2008, alongside American author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, Diamandis co-founded Singularity University.

Barbara Marx Hubbard ( born Barbara Marx on December 22, 1929 ) is a prolific futurist, author and public speaker.

Sandberg is also an accomplished and inventive electronic artist, whose renderings have been adapted to a number of covers for books by fellow futurist Damien Broderick: The Dreaming, Earth is But a Star, The Judas Mandala, Skiffy and Mimesis, Uncle Bones, Warriors of the Tao, and xyzt.

That year, Gilpin published a futurist history of the region, called The Central Gold Region, in which he wrote, " the destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent ".

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.

* The Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award on April 20, 2009 for lifetime achievement as an inventor and futurist in computer-based technologies.

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 model community of Celebration, Florida has been mentioned as a realization of Disney's original vision, but Celebration is based on concepts of new urbanism which is radically different from Disney's modernist and futurist visions.

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.

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.

Garreau is also a principal of The Garreau Group, a Virginia-based consulting company that focuses on futurist theory and analysis.

Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism.

Others, such as futurist Ray Kurzweil, who draws heavily on it in his own publications, have embraced the book.

Max More ( born Max T. O ' Connor, January 1964 ) is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies.

Neuroimaging technologies, that could deliver the necessary detailed understanding, are improving rapidly, and futurist Ray Kurzweil in the book The Singularity Is Near predicts that a map of sufficient quality will become available on a similar timescale to the required computing power.

" The crazy thing is so spectacularly original that even though alerted by my advance notice you are still going to be more surprised by Scarecrow than by anything else you have ever read in your life, even if you are ninety-five and have spent every free moment fiendishly consuming all of the most fantastic symbolist, futurist, cubist, surrealist, expressionist, anarchist, dadaist, existentialist, creationist, ultraist, vanguardist, magical realist, modernist, postmodernist and every other-ist compositions that you could lay your hands on, plus the farthest-out non-ist compositions as well, including Lucian's True Story, Rabelais ' Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Bobok.

Its circular peripteral portico, capped with a smaller peripteral tower, in turn capped with an anomalous slender cone, giving the appearance of a 20th century three-stage space rocket suggesting he may have envisaged the structure as a futurist vehicle for transporting all souls to heaven, is of an enriched Ionic order that substitutes winged cherub's heads for the usual rosettes on the abacus, possibly symbolically representing divine offspring of the Olympian god, Hermes / Roman god, Mercury, as the means of propulsion ; the prominent portico is attached to the reticent main church by the width of a single intercolumniation.

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 ).

* 1980: Begins his work as " visual futurist " on Blade Runner, designing city backgrounds and vehicles.

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

In 2005, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that over a 40 year period between 2005 and 2045, most human beings will gradually evolve into a super race of immortal androids called Transhumans with super-bodies and super-brains ( the super brains of the humanoid androids will have greater capacity not only in and of themselves, but also because they will be able to function more efficiently by storing some of their mental capacity in the cloud of the future greatly expanded Internet through brain-computer interfacing ) by gradually replacing their biological cells with new cells having a more efficient cellular energy processing system that will be based on nanobots manufactured using nanotechnology.

Dr Keith Suter is a consultant on strategic planning, Christian, and a futurist.