A growing community of professional futurists dedicated to promoting excellence and demonstrating the value of futures thinking." Their mission is to lead international discussions on futures practice and encourage the use of foresight in strategic thinking, as well as provide resources and training to professional futurists.
They seek "to raise public awareness of the futures and foresight field throughout Australian states and territories whilst forging strong links with like-minded associations internationally."
Their mission is to "enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain." Their technology public purpose is to deliver the "benefit of emerging communications, technologies and services."
They are a UK-based "strategic futures consultancy enabling organisations to anticipate and manage change in their external environment."
Their "work involves research and analysis across the spectrum of political, economic, social and technological themes" and they "translate raw information into insightful knowledge and concise understanding."
Where "people, data and technology work in concert to identify early indicators and extend the curtain of good information well beyond timeframes typical in traditional analytics." The result = sustainable insight.
Their mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." They build products that they hope will make the web a better experience. they believe the focus should be on the user and all else will follow.
"A nonprofit think tank which promotes ideas about how technological progress can increase freedom, happiness, and human flourishing in democratic societies." They believe that "technological progress can be a catalyst for positive human development so long as we ensure that technologies are safe and equitably distributed."
"An independent, non-profit research organization [whose] core research staff and creative design studio work together to provide practical foresight for a world undergoing rapid change." They provide tools, research and programs to work toward a global future.
This source "identifies important new technologies - deciphering their practical impact and revealing how they will change our lives. Founded at MIT in 1899, it derives its authority from the world's foremost technology institution and from [their] editors' deep technical knowledge, economic realism, and unequaled access to the world's preeminent innovators.
Surrounded by technology leaders, Silicon Valley is at the heart of emerging technology. This site covers all things tech that is the catalyst to the future.
Founded in 1989 by futurist John L. Petersen, TAI is a "non-profit research institute that specializes in thinking about global futures and trying to influence rapid, positive change. They "believe that effective thinking about the future is enhanced by applying newly emerging technology."
RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan company, was established almost 70 years ago and was a pioneer of futures studies. They "bring together the finest researchers in the world and utilize the very best analytical tools and methods to develop objective policy solutions.
Founded in Paris in 1973 as a global network of leading futurists, WFSF is a non-profit global NGO that is "committed to global futures and creating alternative futures that embrace cultural diversity and individual difference." They "are independent, non-commercial in focus and geared towards strengthening the scholarship of futures research."
Established more than 40 years ago, WFS's mission is "to enable thinkers, political personalities, scientists and lay-people to share an informed, serious dialogue on what the future will be like." They hold meetings, events and publish the magazine THE FUTURIST.
Module 3 Think Like a Futurist: Futurist Careers Interview with Jason Swanson, Futurist
