Futurologists, physicists, and sociologists may use science fiction in extra-literary ways but they are not literary critics. If the literary critics misperceive or misconceive their material, the ...

Bryan Appleyard speaks truth to techno-futurist craziness over at The New Statesman: Futurologists are almost always wrong. Indeed, Clive James invented a word – “Hermie” – to denote an ...

Of course, there is no more complete ready-made list of possible futures than the corpus of science fiction. Some futurologists have made formal use of it—Herman Kahn’s Hudson Institute once assigned ...

Could futurologists have predicted the problems that the fossil-fuelled automobile industry would create back then? Avoid futurologists who pretend to know what's coming. There is no certainty.

The Russian president has welcomed representatives of more than 100 countries to Moscow for a conference on global challenges ...

Voice-activated lights? Multi-sensory online experiences? Talking back to the TV? It may sound like an episode of Dr Who, but these are things we all have to look forward to in the coming years, if ...

Futurologists predicted that by 1985 one half of British employees could be working part of the week from home. Prophecy proved far ahead of practice. Shirley Skeel reports on companies trying new ...

"If you make enough predictions then 10% will turn out to be right," Al suggests. "We are sort of futurologists in that we write 10 months ahead, so we're trying to guess what is going to happen ...

We're used to the 'spring forward / fall back' mantra, but some MEPs say we should stop changing our clocks back and forth ...

The chain is revving up excitement for its new menu with its edible coffee cups, which were developed in partnership with London food futurologists the Robin Collective. The inside of the cup is ...

Educators need to reposition the role, and emphasise that it isn't about number crunching: data scientists are futurologists and digital influencers. They're also commercially-minded: training ...