Modern futures movement

Thinking about the future, of course, is not new. It is a universal phenomenon that can be traced back to the dawn of human prehistory. In every known society, people have conceptions of time and the future, even though some of their conceptions appear diverse, with different emphases on past and future and different degrees of elaboration and detail.” Modern futures thinking began in the 1930s and grew rapidly in the last half of the twentieth century.