“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
In a general sense, they are scientists and social scientists who attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future.
Or how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth, in general, is trending that way.
In practice, it is people looking at technology trends and trying to predict if a particular technology is going to dominate or not.
To me it sounds like a new term for "snake oil salesman".
While he has never been an Einstein level physicist, I do agree that his work on SFT was somewhat fascinating. However I think calling him a physicist these days is a stretch. Conman, pseudoscientist, former physicist, these would be more appropriate titles.
They make a living off their wild ideas.
Never trust a futurist with anything serious. Most dabble with pseudo-science, are not engineer and certainly not scientists.
A lot are also con artists looking for funding by gullible investors. Like cold fusion, strange drugs, etc.
You do something so that you have money.
Then you lie in bed, thinking.
Edit: at various points of unemployment in my life, I called myself a "Writer." Sounds better than Jobless. Same deal.
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I prefer a rate of 1.1 seconds per second, but it involves moving fast. Not recommended for most people.
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It's a constant in their movement, or maybe I'm talking about My_seconds/Your_seconds. See above.
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The Donald is one too.
He saw that in 2016 the Democrats would finally put up a truly beatable candidate by anyone with an (R) next to their name.
History shows human behavior to fairly predictable, more than enough to warrant such a job. The title and proposed reverence is pretty cult like though lol
a futurist? someone who runs around on hoverboards and robots? the jetsons fanatics?
They hate the future.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
So, what makes a Historian? Someone who studies history. And can intelligently discuss historical trends and facts.
A futurist is someone who studies trends and consequences of those trends. Then looks at current trends and can intelligently guess the direction they are going.
Both of these are very similar people. We study history to not repeat it. We estimate the future to figure out what is best to work on.
So, If I were to say! In 20 years, most pure gas car engines would be gone. This is me simply studying the current trends and stating that things that seem obvious to most people.