The same companies that once led the way in popularizing ethnographic research – customer-centric leaders such as P&G, Intel, Ford, and General Motors – are now bringing corporate futurists ...

forecasting and analyzing the future. At least, that's what professional futurists seem to think. Their logic is tight: Things are changing fast, which unnerves corporate leaders, who are in turn ...

Intel is looking to sci-fi writers, social scientists, and even comic books to help the company get a leg up on innovation and accurately predict the technology of the future. One such 'futurist ...

Neighborhood 3-D Communications Centers At the 1985 FutureWorld Expo in San Francisco, futurists and inventors were encouraged to set aside preconceptions and reach for the stars. Or the starfish.

If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.” Futurists often work the same way, identifying patterns in the past and present, then extrapolating them ...

The new futurists, as they sometimes call themselves, are well aware of past failures of vision. Soon after World War II, top U.S. scientists dismissed and derided the notion of an accurate ...

PHOENIX — Self-driving cars and other emerging technologies are going to cut into municipal budgets nationwide, a panel of futurists says. Imagine this brave new world: • Autonomous cars that ...

Be curious because what if, said RIT alumnus Bob Morrealle, who shared stories of discovery, hope, and confidence during his presentation at the Futurists Symposium, a collection of alumni and faculty ...

BCIs are a natural beginning to the singularity in the eyes of many futurists, because they meld mind and machine in a way no other technology so far can. Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is ...

That’s a ratio reflected among another key group: futurists. Both the World Future Society and the Association of Professional Futurists are headed by women right now. And both of those women ...