The other realm of the futurist designer, less pure and often delightfully so, is film costuming.
Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences is the latest effort from business futurist Brian Solis.
The futurist George Gilder wrote about this a few years ago in a Forbes publication.
Some commentators, like futurist Sonia Arrison, say humans will soon commonly last a century or more.
Like Transcendent Man, this documentary also focuses on the futurist ideas of one man.
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But the MIT futurist and transhumanist has many more inventions to his name than electronic keyboards.
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Jeff Wacker, corporate futurist for Texas-based Electronic Data Systems (EDS), lectures all over the country about the evolution of American business.
Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked.
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"Mathematics will become part of everything, " says Rishad Tobaccowala, a media futurist and chief executive of Denuo in Chicago.
Harry Dent, the futurist who predicted a Dow of 32, 000 in his 1999 bestseller The Roaring 2000s, is back.
He had no obvious fit in a technology magazine, but I also knew Walsh was an innovator and a futurist.
Then in 1998 a futurist named Harry Dent , in a book called The Roaring 2000s, took a similar tack.
Futurist Stewart Brand believes information wants to be free, and today we all basically have access to the same information.
Combine the aggressive confidence of science and the speculative needs of business, and you get that unique Western omen-reader, the futurist.
And inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil says the day is already fortold.
The great futurist, Marshall McLuhan, noted this "word inflation" 30 years ago.
He's chief operating officer of NFL Media and the league's resident futurist.
The keynote speakers this year include humorist Baratunde Thurston, "cyber anthropologist" Amber Case, Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Crane has a long history covering innovation, interviewing SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, famed futurist and Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, and NASA's William Gerstenmaier.
The difference, according to this leading futurist, is that prediction augurs specific events, while forecasting outlines a range of possibilities and their likelihood of occurring.
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Or, on the other side of the futurist coin, perhaps we are on the cusp of the most creative and generous era known to man.
Examples abound, from the Futurist Manifesto of 1909 to the conservative Contract With America in 1994 and the slightly more recent Cluetrain Manifesto.
In today's climate of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (the "VUCA world" that the futurist Bob Johansen explores in Leaders Make the Future), they matter even more.
Addressing thousands of game designers at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Thursday, futurist and investor Ray Kurzweil argued that game developers are building the future, literally.
The citation says his futurist views have consistently challenged mankind to reconcile technology and social justice, eliminating the wedge that technology drives between the haves and have nots.
People may one day compare him with Nikola Tesla, the famous Serbian inventor and futurist after whom Musk named his other big venture, which makes sleek electrically-powered automobiles.
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We may actually be compelled, ethically, to move forward with animal enhancements, writes George Dvorsky, the Canadian futurist and chairman at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
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Retro-futurist Matt Novak started his blog Paleofuture tracing our past visions of the future in January 2007 in a writing course at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote Future Shock, still one of my favorite futurist books, even though the future for which he tried to prepare us is in many ways already yesterday.
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British science fiction author, inventor and futurist Arthur C.
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