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Association of Professional Futurists

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.

Bernard Benson

The logo of the firm defined its mission: "Applied Cybernetics." Soon after its founding, futurist Donald Prell joined the company as Vice President, Application Engineering.

Bernardo Ríos

His artistic style is based on what he calls "foquism" which may be considered as an extension in terms of style of art presented by the cubism of Picasso or the works created by Georges Braque, Franz Marc, or Lyonel Feininger or even the futurist art movement.

Beta Love

Band members have stated that the album is directly influenced by sci-fi author William Gibson and inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil.

Buildings of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Prominent buildings include the BOK Tower, the second tallest building in Oklahoma; the futurist Oral Roberts University campus and adjacent Cityplex Towers, a group of towers that includes the third tallest building in Oklahoma; Boston Avenue Methodist Church, an Art Deco church designated as a National Historic Landmark; and the BOK Center, a 18,000 seat arena in downtown Tulsa.

Charles Hartshorne

In turn Hartshorne has been a seminal influence on the theologians Matthew Fox, Daniel Day Williams, Norman Pittenger, Gregory A. Boyd, Schubert Ogden and John B. Cobb, on the American philosopher Frank Ebersole and on the Australian biologist-futurologist Charles Birch.

China Policy Review

Numerous former national leaders, ministers, professors and other experts have been featured in previous issues of CPR, including: Nobel Prize Laureate Edmund S. Phelps; Futurist John Nesbitt; Guinean President Alpha Condé; and Deputy Central Bank Governor of Japan Kiyohiko Nishimura.

Chris Campanaro

While at Elias he contributed to such albums as Robert Downey Jr.’s solo record “The Futurist”, Tricky “Vulnerable”, Lou Rawls “Christmas,” and Jonathan Elias’ “The Prayer Cycle” which included several artist such as Sting, Alanis Morissette, Perry Farrell, Salif Keita, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jonathan Davis of Korn and Jon Anderson.

CLA Building

Designed by Albuquerque, New Mexico-based architect Antoine Predock in the Futurist style and completed in 1993, it has come to be the defining image of the university.

Clarkean

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), British science fiction writer and futurist

Cornucopia

Cornucopian, a futurist who believes that humanity is not soon running out of matter and energy

De Rosnay

Joël de Rosnay, Mauritian-born French futurist, science writer, and molecular biologist.

Economy of Seychelles

In 1965, during a three- month visit to the islands, futurist Donald Prell prepared for the then crown colony Governor General, an economic report containing a scenario for the future of the economy.

Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Futurist Manifesto was premiered at a guest lecture by philosopher Slavoj Žižek at Loyola University New Orleans on November 17, 2009.

Eros Vlahos

They own and operate the original Cyberdog shop in Camden Market; a futurist and rave-scene fashion, accessory, and toy retailer which they founded together in 1994.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

That year, Marinetti discovered some allies in three young painters, (Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo), who adopted the Futurist philosophy.

Harry Wexler

Science fiction author and futurist, Arthur C. Clarke, had been following Wexler's work on hurricanes in the 40s and wrote to Wexler to ask for his thoughts on Clarke's idea of using an artificial satellite to study weather patterns from space.

Henry Vega

In a 2012 interview, Vega noted several influences on his composition Wormsongs, including the futurist writings of philosopher Max More and a text from the artist Georg Hobmeier.

Ikuma Arishima

In 1914, he also translated Umberto Boccioni's Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture from the Italian into Japan, thus introducing the Futurism movement to the Japanese modern art world.

International Futures Forum

Ian Page Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Research Labs.

Jamais

Jamais Cascio, American San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and futurist

Konrad Kellen

In the early 1960s he worked at the Hudson Institute think tank with military strategist and futurist Herman Kahn.

Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist

Laurence Johnson

Laurence F. Johnson (born 1950), American futurist, author, and educator

Lief

Lief Larson (born 1975), entrepreneur, futurist and technologist

Lino Guzzella

In 2006, Prof. Guzzella appeared as a guest panellist, along with BT futurist Ian Pearson, space tourist Anousheh Ansari and renowned American astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the CNN Future Summit: World in Motion programme, presented by Richard Quest in Singapore.

Luigi Freddi

As a futurist and a legionario fiumiano, he edited Il Popolo d'Italia and in 1920 was one of the founders of the student avant-garde within the fighting Fascist party and became director of the review Giovinezza.

Luigi Russolo

As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo’s legendary Intonarumori instruments.

Mark Fry

On leaving Dartington in 1970 he enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, where he studied painting under the Futurist Primo Conti.

Michael Bywater

He was a long-running columnist for The Independent on Sunday, an early futurist for The Observer, spent ten years on the staff of Punch, where he wrote a regular computer column and the anonymous "Bargepole" column, as well as having written regularly for The Times, and been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan and Woman's Journal.

Michael Hart

Michael H. Hart (born 1932), American physicist and futurist author

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Morinosuke Kawaguchi (川口盛之助, b. May 1, 1961 in Ashiya, Japan) is a Japanese futurist and innovation expert.

Mounqaliba

The album features audio clips from non-commercial film director, and activist Peter Joseph and self-educated industrial engineer and futurist Jacque Fresco through multiple tracks, as well as references to Zeitgeist: Addendum and a resource-based economy.

National Federation of the Blind

NFB has partnered with Kurzweil Educational Systems, a company founded by noted inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, to develop a completely portable reading machine: the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader.

Nikolay Diulgheroff

He contributed to the Futurist meals formulated in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia's 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cooking: the dish pollofiat was his idea and he co-designed the interior of the Taverna Santopalato, the prime establishment for futurist cuisine.

Nikolay Fyodorov

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher and futurist

Pranzo Oltranzista

It is subtitled "Musica da Tavola per Cinque" (literally translated as Banquet Piece for Five Players), and is based on "Futurist Cookbook" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, written in 1932.

Raymond Rodgers

Raymond Spencer Rodgers (1935–2007), British-born American educator and futurist

Three Laws of Robotics

The futurist Hans Moravec (a prominent figure in the transhumanist movement) proposed that the Laws of Robotics should be adapted to "corporate intelligences" — the corporations driven by AI and robotic manufacturing power which Moravec believes will arise in the near future.

Tytus

Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists, and Colorist

Universology

Popularizing universologic science was a life's work for 19th century intellectual Stephen Pearl Andrews, a futurist utopian.

Varvara Stepanova

She designed Cubo-Futurist work for several artists' books, and studied under Jean Metzinger at Académie de La Palette, an art academy where the painters André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier also taught.

Walter Anderson

Walter Truett Anderson (born 1933), political scientist, futurist, author


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