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futurology::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | futuristics |
| Type of | bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
Examples of futurology
futurology
Still, this book is not really intended as an exercise in scientific futurology.
From the economist.com
It's impossible to be confident with predictions about constitutional futurology.
From the theatlantic.com
Global warming, in particular, is making general-purpose futurology all but futile.
From the economist.com
Making sense of the financial system is more an act of archaeology than futurology.
From the newscientist.com
By the early 1920s, they saw that Marx had got that bit of futurology wrong.
From the guardian.co.uk
Why does Matolcsy get a multi-billion-forint futurology fund and institute?
From the economist.com
Well, tis now mid-June, so the futurology aspect of the prediction is closing rapidly.
From the scienceblogs.com
It brings futurology closer than ever before to genuinely following the scientific method.
From the newscientist.com
So it is with some trepidation that I want to venture into a little financial futurology.
From the newscientist.com
- The study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions
- Futurology (may also be referred as futures studies or foresight) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. ...
- The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
- An older term for the study of the future, used mainly in the US around the 1960s. The "ology" ending has connotations that the future is scientifically predictable. These days, the more neutral term "futures studies" is preferred, and experts in this area are called Futurists, not Futurologists.
- Is the enterprise of trying to predict the future by scientific or quasi-scientific means.
