If ever there is medicine after death! Yet there are futurologists and there are futurologists. Certain inevitabilities are so obvious that they do not require the gift of prophecy to foretell.

This shift toward more evidence-based guesswork came about in the 20th century: futurologists began to see what prediction looked like when based on a scientific understanding of the world ...

Asked to speculate about possible scenarios for the next 20 years, a score of futurologists recently came up with projections that were far gloomier than the forecasts posited at the turn of the ...

I was baffled when I first encountered the term ‘food futurologists’. Everything I’ve heard from them since inclines me to apply an alternative F word to this genus: fantasists. Revisiting the ...

In Stanislaw Lem’s novel, The Futurological Congress, published in 1971, Ijon Tichy, a Russian cosmonaut on his way to an international gathering of futurologists in the developing world ...

The people who really understand what Google Glass heralds are a small band of men and women known as futurists, or futurologists, and by joining up the dots of what we know today with what they ...

When futurologists made their predictions in the 1980s, what did they call correctly and what did they get hopelessly wrong? In 1989, Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Bernstein interviewed innovators ...

Futurologists or futurists combine instinct with seemingly scientific systems like cross-impact analysis and decision modeling in their craft. Their market is primarily big companies, which will ...

Here, food futurologists from The Robin Collective, Robin Fegen and Brandy Wright, talk grub with us... Brandy: Tinned reindeer. Someone gave it to me as a gift and I've never eaten it.

In 10 to 20 years’ time the chances are that our jobs – and the way we work – will be very different, if predictions by leading futurologists are any guide. Job titles that do not exist now ...

IT seems the world is not short these days of opinions about what the future might hold. Much of the discussion, when it comes to the economy, is based on the rapid pace of technological advance ...