History
The APF was founded in 2002 by an informal network of professional futurists. The APF was created to lead discussion internationally about professional futures practice, encourage the use of futures and foresight in strategic decision making, and offer services, resources and training for foresight professionals to advance their skills and knowledge. As is the intention of many association groups, the APF was primarily formed to increase futures studies conversations through professional networking and improve the image and performance of the field.
The APF's members have written for and are cited in various journals and magazines such as The Futurist, Wired, Futures, Foresight, and the Journal for Futures Studies.
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“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving—as if it were an individual person—its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)