- Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey", and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of what was sometimes known as the "Big Three" of science fiction, which included Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. - Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of "Fortune" magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. - Bruce Sterling
Author, journalist, editor, and critic, Bruce Sterling is also leader of the Viridians an online ecological design community. He has written eight science fiction novels, and edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), available electronically on the Internet. - Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, … - Gerd Leonhard
Gerd Leonhard (‘61) is an acknowledged futurist, visionary, blogger, digerati, writer, speaker and advisor. He has spent over twenty-five years in the technology and entertainment industries, both in the U.S. as well as in Europe, and recently in Asia. Gerd is considered an expert on the dramatic changes that are impacting ‘content’ and media companies as the consequences of the new, disruptive technologies, and of convergence - Patrick Dixon
Dr Patrick Dixon is a business thinker and futurist. His Web TV site has more than 10 million unique users. He is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, author of twelve books (455,000 printed in 22 languages) including "Futurewise" and "Building a Better Business", has spoken to audiences in 48 nations, and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today. - Max More
Max More is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision making and foresight methods for handling the impact of emerging technologies. Born in Bristol, England, More has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Anne’s College, Oxford University (1987). His 1995 University of Southern California doctoral dissertation "The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, … - Luigi Russolo
Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 - February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifestoes "The Art of Noises" (1913) and "Musica Futurista". - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni was an Italian painter and sculptor and a member of the Futurist movement. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. - Faith Popcorn
Faith Popcorn, born in 1948 as Faith Plotkin, is a futurist and founder of the boutique consultancy, BrainReserve. Fortune (magazine) called her the "Nostradamus of marketing." By 1991 she was a leading trend expert who published her first book, "The Popcorn Report". The book concerned what to expect from American culture and business in the decade ahead, … - Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson (born 1933 in Bristol, England) is a futurist and an evolutionary economist. She is the author of several books including "Building A Win-Win World", "Beyond Globalization", "Planetary Citizenship" (with Daisaku Ikeda), and "Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy" (with Simran Sethi). Henderson is now a television producer for the public television series "Ethical Markets". - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. He is a widely known popularizer of science, the host of two radio programs, and the author of numerous books. - Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. He described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations--to look at the world in a new way, … - Gino Severini
Gino Severini (April 7 1883 - February 26 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. At an early stage in his artwork, he was exposed to Impressionist ideas. His work was influenced by Cubism and in 1921 he published a book, "Du Cubisme au Classicisme". In the 1920s his style became more traditional and he did several decorative commissions, including murals for churches in Switzerland. His style became semi-abstract in the 1940s. - John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt (born Jan. 15, 1929; Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. He is best known for authoring the international bestsellers "Megatrends", which was written in 1982 and "Re-inventing the Corporation". "Megatrends" was translated and published in 57 countries and was for many weeks in the first place as non-fiction book in the bestseller lists in the USA, Japan and Germany. - Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company. Learn more at his site . - Michael Crichton
Crichton, born in Chicago, is best known as the author of several books that have gone onto become famous films, most notably "Jurassic Park" and its sequel, "The Lost World". He is also the author of "The Andromeda Strain", "Rising Sun", "The Great Train Robbery", "Congo", "Sphere", "Eaters Of The Dead, and "Timeline" among others, all of which have been adapted for the big screen and TV. He was also the creator of the award-winning TV series [... ] - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and main founder of the futurist movement of the early 20th century. - Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC). - Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lifelong opponent of nationalism, and proponent of nuclear disarmament and international cooperation. - Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. - Anders Sandberg
Anders Sandberg (born July 11 1972) is a science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University and is currently postdoctoral research assistant for the Oxford group of the EU ENHANCE Project at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University). He is co-founder of and writer for the think tank Eudoxa. - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx in 1929) is a prolific futurist, writer and public speaker. - George Gilder
George F. Gilder (born November 29, 1939, in New York City) is an American writer, techno-utopian intellectual and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism. - Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane (born 11 July, 1946 -)is an English futurist. He was Head of BT Research from 1993 until 1999, when he was appointed Chief Technologist. In November 2000 he retired from BT to join his own startup company - ConceptLabs. He has published and lectured widely on technology and the implications of IT and was awarded an OBE in 1999 for his contribution to international communications, … - John Smart
John Smart is a developmental systems theorist whose interests include accelerating change, computational autonomy, evolutionary development, and the technological singularity. He is president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. - Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn was a military strategist and systems theorist employed at RAND Corporation, USA. His theories contributed to the development of the nuclear strategy of the United States. - Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero (March 30, 1892 - November 29, 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer. Although born in Fondo (in the Italian Trentino region), Depero grew up in Rovereto and it was here he first began exhibiting his works, while serving as an apprentice to a marble worker. It was on a 1913 trip to Florence that he discovered a copy of the paper "Lacerba" and an article by one of the founders of the futurism movement, … - Richard Neville
Richard Neville is an Australian author and futurist, originally known for publishing and editing the counterculture magazine "Oz" in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a frequent guest on "The Mike Walsh Show" in the 1980s - Antonio Sant'Elia
Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect. He was born in Como, Lombardy. A builder by training, he opened a design office in Milan in 1912 and became involved with the Futurist movement. Between 1912 and 1914, influenced by industrial cities of the United States and the Viennese architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, he began a series of design drawings for a futurist "Città Nuova" ("New City") that was conceived as symbolic of a new age. - George Dvorsky
George P. Dvorsky (born on May 11, 1970) is an agenda-driven futurist who is the organizer of the Betterhumans online community and the author of the "Sentient Developments" blog. Dvorsky is also a co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association, has served on the board of directors for the World Transhumanist Association, and currently serves on the board of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. - Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He was long a teacher in the city of Milan. - James Lovelock
Dr James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurologist who lives in Devon, in the south west of Great Britain. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism. - Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916) is an industrial engineer, architectural designer, social engineer and futurist based in Florida. His optimistic view and desire to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people stem from his formative years during the Great Depression. To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, … - Peter Russell
Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S. (born May 7, 1946) is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and been a popular public speaker.
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