Futurible/Futurable

A possible future. The term was originated by Bertrand de Jouvenel, in The Art of Conjecture, one of the earliest books on future studies - first published in English in 1967, in French a few years earlier. It is a complex of possible alternative futures, the existence of alternative possible and probable futures as mental constructions, as against only one future.It involves action and effort and implies that we have enough power to make our ambitions a reality. The future gives us a guide for present choices in which values are used either implicitly or explicitly.