General Futures Studies Concepts
- 15 Global Challenges
- Actionable futurism
- Agentization
- Applied Foresight Network
- Calculating Demand Forecast Accuracy
- Clarke's three laws
- CPFR
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Coolhunting
- Digital library (initiatives)
- Emerging technologies
- List of emerging technologies
- End of civilization
- Eschatology
- Forecasting
- Foresight
- Future
- Future energy development
- Futures techniques
- Global Consciousness Project
- Hubbert peak
- Hubbert peak theory
- Infinite Bandwdith Zero Latency
- Integral Futures
- Kardashev scale
- Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
- Kondratiev wave
- Malthusian catastrophe
- Memetics - Mapping MentorshipART Memes
- 2010: Multi-media AVATARS (Discussion)
- DIKW - Harlan Cleveland
- FMEA: Failure mode and effects analysis
- GDSS: Group decision support systems
- Interdependence
- Social network analysis - thinkLets
- StoryTech decision support frameworks
- Involution (esoterism) (Anticipatory thinking)
- Moore's Law
- Morphological analysis
- Neofuturism
- Normative futures
- Omega Point
- Optimism bias
- Planetary Phase of Civilization
- Planning
- Prediction
- Prediction market
- Preferred futures
- Psychohistory (fictional)
- The Race of the Future
- Reference class forecasting
- Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
- Scenario analysis
- State of the Future
- Strategic Foresight
- Systems thinking
- Technological singularity
- Technology
- Technology forecasting
- Theory of Constraints
- Thought experiment
- Timeline of the future in forecasts
- Transhumanism
- Twelve leverage points
- Ultimate fate of the universe
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