Futurist Recognition
APF selects and recognizes significant futures works. The first awards were announced in 2008. The ten 'most important futures works' recognized by the APF in that year included Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View, Wendell Bell's Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era, Bertrand de Jouvenel's L'Art de la Conjecture (The Art of Conjecture), and Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines.
The APF also has a student recognition program in which universities worldwide offering undergraduate, Masters and/or PhD in foresight and futures studies can submit up to three student works that the university considers to be of exceptional quality in terms of originality, content and contribution to the field.
The Association also aims to enhance the ability of other organisations to understand the work of and to engage with a futurist.
Read more about this topic: Association Of Professional Futurists
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