futurist (thing)

1. Noun

Someone specializing in studying the Future. Examples include:

• R.Buckminster Fuller - 1895-1983
• Louis Kahn - 1901-1974
• Alvin Toffler - 1928-
• Nicholas Negroponte
• Ray Kurzweil -
• Bruce Sterling

• Future Shock - 1970
• "The Third Wave" - 1984
• Powershift : Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century - 1991
• The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity - 1996
• Global Trends 2005: An Owner's Manual for the Next Decade - 2001
• The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century - 2002
• Tomorrow Now : Envisioning the Next Fifty Years - 2002
• The Spike : How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies - 2001

2. Noun

Someone associated with the Art movement known as Futurism.

Adjective

Of or relating to the Italian art and literary movement Futurism

Related Nodes:

• Russian Futurism

Sources: Taylor, Joshua C., FUTURISM, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961. Tisdall, Caroline and Bozzolla, Angelo, "Futurism", Thames and Hudson, London, 1996. Last Updated 01.28.04