A mechanical engineer with anarchist leanings, possibly based on Russian futurists, Alexander Bogdanov ( the character's ancestor ) and Arkady Strugatsky, he is regarded by many other members of the First Hundred, particularly Boyle, as a troublemaker.

" Works on display include those of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists.

Large corporations invest heavily in this kind of activity to help focus attention on possible events, risks and business opportunities, using futurists.

Singularitarians are distinguished from other futurists who speculate on a technological singularity by their belief that the Singularity is not only possible, but desirable if guided prudently.

Relatedly, though no infrastructure or economic interests exist at the moment to warrant the occupation of terrain on other terrestrial bodies within the Solar system, or to occupy orbital trajectories in outer space, some futurists have predicted that should such infrastructure be deployed, space-faring nations may go to war for control of extra-planetary resources.

Picoscience is a term used by some futurists to refer to structuring of matter on a true picometer scale.

Some futurists claim that it would put the human species on a path to participant evolution.

This program examines key moments of the ‘ 90s, reflects on changes during the last five decades, and, with the assistance of leading futurists, looks ahead to some of the possible events and innovations just over the horizon.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Visitors can peek inside port windows and see mannequins of Edison and Eiffel ( and Eiffel's daughter, posed with the phonograph ), the tableau commemorating their fabled meeting of September 10, 1899 in which, over cigars and cognac, they discussed possible joint projects and their participation in Jules Verne's " smoking club " for avowed futurists, dubbed Plus Ultra.

While in 1912 he exhibited some paintings together with other Italian futurists at the Bernheim-Jeun, in 1913 he returned to show his sculptures at the Gallerie La Boetie: all related to the elaboration of what Boccioni had seen in Paris, they in their turn probably influenced the cubist sculptors, especially Duchamp-Villon.

In addition, leading experts in a particular field develop and publish their own individual forecasts, and notable thinkers called futurists formulate independent visions of the future.

Since the beginning of operations in 1996, nearly 5, 000 futurists, scholars, decision-makers, and business planners from over 50 countries have contributed with their views to the Millennium Project research.

Visionary writers such as Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy and H. G. Wells were not in their day characterized as futurists.

Coolhunters operate most notably in the world of street fashion and design, but their work also blurs into that of futurists such as Faith Popcorn.

The Italian futurists saw Asmara as an opportunity to build their designs.

Centred in Moscow, around the Gileia Group of Transrational ( zaum ) poets David and Nikolai Burliuk, Elena Guro, Vasili Kamenski and Velimir Khlebnikov, the Russian futurists created a sustained series of artists ' books that challenged every assumption of orthodox book production.

But the date is of special significance to futurists since it is the year of Jerusalem's capture by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War.

Most futurists are expecting a Rapture of the Church, an Antichrist, a Great Tribulation and a Second coming of Christ in the near future.

The term mechatronics is typically used to refer to macroscopic systems but futurists have predicted the emergence of very small electromechanical devices.

To the futurists, cinema was an ideal art form, being a fresh medium, and able to be manipulated by speed, special effects and editing.

Furthermore, futurists must consider war, even between prosperous states, and non-economic goals.

Proponents of preterism sometimes argue that this position was the original eschatological understanding of the Early Christian church, a claim contested by historicists and futurists.

Many futurists theorize that advanced nanotechnology with the ability to automatically turn any kind of material into any other combination of equal mass, will make all goods essentially free goods, since all raw materials and manufacturing time will become perfectly interchangeable.

" The concept has also been popularized by futurists, such as Ray Kurzweil.

According to many futurists, many predictions are currently being fulfilled during the Church Age, in which lawlessness and apostasy are currently plaguing secular society.

It includes early 20th century works of prominent American modernists and Italian futurists.

Whole brain emulation is discussed by futurists as a " logical endpoint " of the topical computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics fields, both about brain simulation for medical research purposes.

Among futurists and within the transhumanist movement it is an important proposed life extension technology, originally suggested in biomedical literature in 1971.

Herman Kahn ( February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983 ) was one of the preeminent futurists of the latter third of the twentieth century.

* Herbert I. London, forward by Herman Kahn, Why Are They Lying to Our Children ( Against the doomsayer futurists ), ISBN 0-9673514-2-1

Full preterists contend that those who consider themselves to be partial preterists are actually just futurists since they believe the Second Coming, Resurrection, Rapture and Judgment are still in the future.

Negroponte has influenced modern day futurists, such as David Houle.

For over a century, futurists have envisioned a future where telephone conversations will take place as actual face-to-face encounters with video as well as audio.

Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller.

* Alvin Toffler, futurist

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Capp was the Playboy interview subject in December 1965, in a conversation conducted by Alvin Toffler.

* Toffler, Alvin, Playboy Magazine ( December 1965 ) interview with Al Capp, pp. 89 – 100

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The title derives from the futurist work Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

* Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.