The other realm of the futurist designer, less pure and often delightfully so, is film costuming.
The futurist George Gilder wrote about this a few years ago in a Forbes publication.
Like Transcendent Man, this documentary also focuses on the futurist ideas of one man.
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Harry Dent, the futurist who predicted a Dow of 32, 000 in his 1999 bestseller The Roaring 2000s, is back.
Combine the aggressive confidence of science and the speculative needs of business, and you get that unique Western omen-reader, the futurist.
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.
My old friend Jeff, the futurist, is right.
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Complete with a doctrine that gives a cheeky wink to the Futurist manifesto - "We are enslaved to the Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades our privacy and forces us to ear Fast Foods" -- the organization today has spread to 80 countries, from Austria to Venezuela, with over 85, 000 members.
It is a complicated issue, and while I come down on the futurist side of the debate and think that for the most part piracy is overblown and the overreaction is much scarier, I do think there is a legitimate complaint to be made and some of these sites are obviously engaged in unethical and illegal activity.
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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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But the MIT futurist and transhumanist has many more inventions to his name than electronic keyboards.
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The great futurist, Marshall McLuhan, noted this "word inflation" 30 years ago.
Last year Glenn Hiemstra, the founder of Futurist.com, told me this would become one of the biggest concerns for employers in terms of retaining young employees when the economy recovers, and linked that problem with the epedemic of job-hopping seen in Millennials.
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.
Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"), a scientist and engineer, and a futurist dead-set on fighting the gravitational pull of his own times.
Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences is the latest effort from business futurist Brian Solis.
He's chief operating officer of NFL Media and the league's resident futurist.
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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In the AI optimist camp, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil also sees intelligent machines precipitating human extinction, of a sort, only in Kurzweil's telling, humanity is not exterminated but subsumed into a superintelligent machine.
So forgive me if I'm being small-minded, but Bruce Tognazzini's speculative manifesto about an Apple iWatch fails to make a convincing futurist case for the imagined device -- despite whipping up a whirlwind of attention.
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Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.
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.
Without showing him any of the clothes from his first couture show a romantic-futurist collection with nods to Dior classics like the Bar jacket Simons summoned Colle to Paris to prepare arrangements for the walls around the runway.
And inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil says the day is already fortold.
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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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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In a recent editorial, Ray Kurzweil, futurist and Singularity Chancellor, compared the current university model to the bookstore model, suggesting that universities will be undermined by online the way that digital books undermined Borders.
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Then in 1998 a futurist named Harry Dent , in a book called The Roaring 2000s, took a similar tack.
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