Futurist

One who specializes in the study of the future. A person who uses systematic techniques to study future possibilities; one who practices futures research. Bell says: “Futurists seek to know what causes change, the dynamic process underlying technological developments on the one hand and changes in the political, economic, social, and cultural orders on the other. They seek theories to explain such changes and to help people to recognize and understand them. Futurists seek to determine what anticipated changes may have to be accepted because they are, temporarily, that is, at a given time and place, or intrinsically and always, beyond human control.”