Notable futurologists include:
Name | Birth | Death | Field | Reference |
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Adrian Berry | 1937 | living | writer, journalist | Adrian Berry |
Bruce Sterling | 1954 | living | living design, information technology | |
Alvin Toffler | 1928 | living | technological singularity | |
Andrey Korotayev | 1961 | living | mathematical modeling of global future | Macromodels of the World System Growth |
Anne Lise Kjaer | 1962 | living | Future Trends, Consumer Mindsets and Mobile Technologies | Anne Lise Kjaer |
Archibald Low | 1888 | 1956 | space | |
Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 2008 | writer | The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation |
Arthur Harkins | living | innovation studies | Arthur Harkins | |
Bertrand de Jouvenel | 1903 | 1987 | economist | Nature 0f Future |
Bill Joy | 1954 | living | technology dangers | profile on TED |
Buckminster Fuller | 1895 | 1983 | architect, cosmologist | Who is Buckminster Fuller? |
Carl Sagan | 1934 | 1996 | astronomer | |
Clem Bezold | living | healthcare | Institute for Alternative Futures | |
Danila Medvedev | 1980 | living | transhumanist | Danila Medvedev |
Dandridge M. Cole | 1921 | 1965 | space colonisation | Dandridge M. Cole (my grand-hero-pa) |
Darla Jane Gilroy | living | futurist, trendspotting | Darla Jane Gilroy | |
David H. Holtzman | living | technology | David H. Holtzman | |
Deane Hutton | living | communicator | Deane Hutton | |
Dennis Gabor | 1900 | 1979 | holography | Dennis Gabor - Autobiography |
Donald Prell | 1924 | living | venture capital, Datamation magazine | |
Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | living | hypertext, mouse | Douglas Engelbart |
Dirk HR Spennemann | living | space heritage | Cultural Heritage Management | |
Ertuğrul Bülbül | 1986 | living | military strategist | |
Faith Popcorn | 1948 | living | popcorn report | Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve |
FM-2030 | 1930 | 2000 | transhumanist | |
Freeman Dyson | 1923 | living | nuclear engineering, disarmament | Freeman J. Dyson's Homepage |
Fred Polak | 1907 | 1985 | social studies | |
Gaston Berger | 1896 | 1960 | cognitive science | |
Gene Roddenberry | 1921 | 1991 | Creator of the Star Trek franchise. | |
George Dvorsky | living | transhumanist | Sentient Developments | |
George Gilder | 1939 | living | society | Gilder Telecosm Forum |
George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | writer | |
Gerald Celente | 1946 | living | trend forecaster | Gerald Celente's Trends Research Institute |
Gerard K. O'Neill | 1927 | 1992 | space colonization | Life of Gerard K. O’Neill |
Grace Hopper | 1906 | 1992 | women in computing | We Build a Better World |
Hans Moravec | 1948 | living | robotics, AI | Hans Moravec home page |
Harlan Cleveland | 1918 | 2008 | diplomacy | The Late Harlan Cleveland on Leadership |
Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | military strategist | Hudson Institute > Herman Kahn |
Hugo de Garis | 1947 | living | AI | Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis |
Isaac Asimov | 1920 | 1992 | Writer of science and science fiction | Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis |
Jacque Fresco | 1916 | living | architect, resource economics | The Venus Project Future by Design |
Jamais Cascio | living | ethics | Open the Future | |
James Hughes | living | ethics | Dr. J. Hughes | |
James Lovelock | 1919 | living | environmentalist | James LOVELOCK's web site |
Jason Ling | 1975 | living | Social Networking, New Media Technologies and Mobile Technologies | |
Jennifer M. Gidley | living | psychologist, educator | President, World Futures Studies Federation | |
Jeremy Rifkin | 1945 | living | economist, Science & Tech. | wikipedia site |
Jerry Fishenden | living | Microsoft future | Jerry Fishenden | |
Jean Fourastié | 1907 | 1990 | economist | Site Jean Fourastie |
Jerome C. Glenn | living | futures wheel | ||
Jim Dator | living | politics | Papers by Jim Dator | |
Jim Carroll (author) | living | futurist and trends and innovation expert | ||
Joanne Pransky | living | robotics | World's First Robotic Psychiatrist | |
Joël de Rosnay | 1937 | living | living molecular biology | |
John Naisbitt | 1929 | living | megatrends | John Naisbitt |
John Smart | 1960 | living | acceleration | John Smart Bio |
Jules Verne | 1828 | 1905 | aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel | |
Kevin Warwick | 1954 | living | robotics | Kevin Warwick - Home Page |
Krafft Arnold Ehricke | 1917 | 1984 | space colonization | NASA |
Lidewij Edelkoort | 1950 | living | fashion | Edelkoort |
Magda Cordell McHale | 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator | |
Mark Pesce | 1962 | living | inventor, writer, engineer | Mark Pesce's Website |
Mahdi ElMandjra | 1933 | living | economist, sociologist | Site mahdi elmandjra |
Marshall Brain | 1961 | living | robotics, transhumanism | MarshallBrain.com |
Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | communications | The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan |
Matthew Simmons | living | peak oil | Simmons & Company International | |
Meredith Thring | 1915 | 2006 | inventor | |
M. G. Gordon | 1915 | 1969 | social studies | |
Michael Crichton | 1942 | 2008 | writer; implications of progress in science | MichaelCrichton.com |
Michael E. Arth | 1953 | living | urban design | Michael E. Arth |
Michael Rogers | living | New York Times Futurist; MSNBC commentator | ||
Michael Vassar | 1979 | living | transhumanism, technological singularity | |
Michio Kaku | 1947 | living | string field theory | Explorations in Science |
Nayef Al-Rodhan | living | transhumanist, sustainable history, singularity dignity, future geopolitics | Sustainable History, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University | |
Nicholas Negroponte | 1943 | living | OLPC | Nicholas Negroponte |
Orrin H. Pilkey | living | critic of environmentalists | Nicholas School Faculty | |
Ossip K. Flechtheim | 1909 | 1998 | founder of futurology |
de:Ossip K. Flechtheim |
Peter Schwartz | 1946 | living | China, Climate Change, Business, Technology | Global Business Network at the Wayback Machine (archived September 27, 2007) |
Patrick Dixon | 1957 | living | business | Global Change |
Peter C. Bishop | 1944 | living | Educator - Strategic Foresight | University of Houston |
Peter Newman | living | sustainability | ||
Peter Russell | 1946 | living | consciousness | Spirit of Now |
Ray Kurzweil | 1948 | living | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity | Kurzweil Technologies KurzweilAI.net |
Raymond Spencer Rodgers | 1935 | 2007 | telesphere, food-chain | |
Renzo Provinciali | 1895 | 1981 | anarchist | |
Richard C. Duncan | living | peak oil | Minnesotans For Sustainability | |
Richard Feynman | 1918 | 1988 | physicist and inventor of nanotechnology | |
Richard Moran | 1950 | living | social scientist | |
Richard Neville | 1941 | living | author, reporter | |
Richard Slaughter | living | sociologist | Foresight International | |
Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | 1988 | writer | Heinlein Society |
Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 | 2007 | psychonaut | Who "is" Robert Anton Wilson? |
Robert Jastrow | 1925 | 2008 | NASA scientist, author, spaceflight | |
Robert Jungk | 1913 | 1994 | journalist | |
Robin Hanson | 1959 | living | prediction markets, singularity, transhumanism | Cato Institute, Future of Humanity Institute |
Ross Dawson | living | futurist, speaker, author | Ross Dawson website | |
Sohail Inayatullah | 1958 | living | political scientist | Metafuture.org |
Stanisław Lem | 1921 | 2006 | writer | Official site for the author Stanislaw Lem |
Stephen Euin Cobb | 1955 | living | transhumanist | Stephen Euin Cobb's |
Stewart Brand | 1938 | living | cognitive science | Stewart Brand |
Sydney Jay Mead | 1933 | living | visual futurist | Syd Mead |
Terence McKenna | 1946 | 2000 | philosopher, psychonaut, speaker | |
Theodore Modis | 1943 | living | business, physics | |
Vannevar Bush | 1890 | 1974 | analog computing | Vannevar Bush |
W. Warren Wagar | 1932 | 2004 | historian | Futurist W. Warren Wagar Dies |
Walter Greiling | 1900 | 1986 | chemist, sociologist | |
Warren Ellis | 1968 | living | writer | Warren Ellis webpage |
William Gilpin | 1813 | 1894 | politician | William Gilpin |
Phil Salin | 1949 | 1991 | cyberspace and the Internet | Salon.com |
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