| Name |
Birth |
Death |
Field |
Reference |
| Adrian Berry |
1937 |
living |
writer, journalist |
Adrian Berry |
| Alvin Toffler |
1928 |
living |
technological singularity |
alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} |
| 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 |
| Bruce Sterling |
1954 |
living |
design, information technology |
DesignBoom Profile |
| 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 |
| 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 |
George Orwell - Complete works |
| 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 |
| 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 |
[1] |
| Joanne Pransky |
|
living |
robotics |
World's First Robotic Psychiatrist |
| Joël de Rosnay |
1937 |
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 |
| Marsha Rhea |
|
living |
boomers |
Institute for Alternative Futures |
| Mahdi ElMandjra |
1933 |
living |
economist, sociologist |
Site mahdi elmandjra |
| Marshall Brain |
1961 |
living |
robotics, transhumanism |
MarshallBrain.com |
| Marcel Bullinga |
|
living |
Futurist & keynote speaker about the future & innovation |
[2] |
| 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 |
[3] |
| Michael Vassar |
1979 |
living |
transhumanism, technological singularity |
|
| Michell Zappa |
1982 |
living |
Emerging technology forecaster |
Envisioning Technology |
| 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 |
crique of environmentalists |
Nicholas School Faculty |
| Patricia Aburdene |
|
living |
conscious capitalism |
Patricia Aburdene - Mega Trends |
| Peter Schwartz |
1946 |
living |
China, Climate Change, Business, Technology |
Global Business Network at the Wayback Machine (archived September 27, 2007) |
| Renzo Provinciali |
|
living |
sustainability |
|
| 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 |
| Richard Watson |
|
living |
Trends expert, scenario planner and author of Future Files |
[4] |
| 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 |
leading futurist, speaker, author |
[5] |
| 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 |
|
| Thomas Frey |
1954 |
living |
business, innovation, education, libraries |
DaVinci Institute |
| 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 |
| Warren Evans |
1953 |
living |
Future Trends, Leadership, & Strategic Planning |
[6] |
| Wayne Horkan |
1970 |
living |
transhumanist |
Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic |
| William Gilpin |
1813 |
1894 |
politician |
William Gilpin |
| William Rowley |
|
living |
healthcare |
Institute for Alternative Futures |
| Phil Salin |
1949 |
1991 |
cyberspace and the Internet |
Salon.com |
