นักอนาคตศาสตร์ (Futurist)

อนาคตศาสตร์ (Future studies หรือ Futurology) คือ ศาสตร์ที่ว่าด้วยการศึกษาโอกาสและความเป็นไปได้ของความเป็นไปในอนาคตที่จะเกิดขึ้น ซึ่งจะต้องอาศัยความเป็นศาสตร์ (Science) และศิลป์ (Art) อนาคตศาสตร์ถูกจัดให้อยู่เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของสังคมศาสตร์ (Social sciences) และอาจเป็นคู่ขนานกับการศึกษาด้านประวัติศาสตร์ (History) เนื่องจากต้องอาศัยบริบทในหลากหลายมิติของสังคมที่เกิดขึ้นในอดีตจนถึงปัจจุบัน เพื่อเป็นบรรทัดฐานที่ต่อเนื่องไปถึงการวิเคราะห์อนาคต

ผมสนใจในคีย์เวิร์ด "นักอนาคตศาสตร์" หรือ Futurist มาสักระยะหนึ่งแล้ว ในฐานะอาชีพที่ต้องการความรู้รอบด้านในการพยากรณ์อนาคตเพื่อการบริหารจัดการและรับมืออนาคตที่ยังมาไม่ถึงได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ก็เลยลองหาข้อมูลดูว่าคนที่มาทำอาชีพนี้ พื้นเพมาจากวงการใดหรือมีความเชี่ยวชาญพื้นฐานอะไรกันบ้าง

Name	Birth	Death	Field
Adrian Berry	1937	2016	writer, journalist
Alan Marshall	1969	living	academic, environmentalist, social scientist, writer
Aldous Huxley	1894	1963	writer of Brave New World, psychedelic prophet
Alvin Toffler	1928	2016	wrote Future Shock, and sequels, technological singularity
Andrey Korotayev	1961	living	mathematical modeling of global future[1]
Anne Lise Kjaer	1962	living	future trends, consumer mindsets and mobile technologies
Archibald Low	1888	1956	space
Arthur C. Clarke	1917	2008	writer
Arthur Harkins	1936	2016	innovation studies
Bertrand de Jouvenel	1903	1987	economist
Bill Joy	1954	living	UNIX, technology dangers
Bruce Sterling	1954	living	living design, information technology
Buckminster Fuller	1895	1983	architect, cosmologist, whole-systems thinker, designer/inventor
Carl Sagan	1934	1996	astronomer
Clem Bezold		living	healthcare
Dandridge M. Cole	1921	1965	space colonization
Daniel Burrus	1947	living	fururist, business advisor, author
Danila Medvedev	1980	living	transhumanist
Darla Jane Gilroy		living	futurist, trendspotting
David H. Holtzman		living	technology
Deane Hutton		living	communicator
Dennis Gabor	1900	1979	holography
Dirk HR Spennemann		living	space heritage
Donald Prell	1924	living	venture capital, strategic foresight, technological singularity
Douglas Engelbart	1925	2013	hypertext, mouse, interactive computing
Douglas Rushkoff	1961	living	[2][3][4] media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian, early cyberpunk culture, open source
Edward Bellamy	1850	1898	wrote Looking Backward: 2000–1887 , a utopia about the future year 2000, economic reorganization
Faith Popcorn	1948	living	popcorn report
FM-2030	1930	2000	transhumanist, essayist
Fred Polak	1907	1985	social studies
Freeman Dyson	1923	living	nuclear engineering, disarmament
Gaston Berger	1896	1960	cognitive science
Gene Roddenberry	1921	1991	creator of the Star Trek franchise.
George Dvorsky	1970	living	transhumanist
George Friedman	1949	living	geopolitics
George Gilder	1939	living	society
George Orwell	1903	1950	writer (wrote 1984)
Gerald Celente	1946	living	trend forecaster
Gerard K. O'Neill	1927	1992	envisioned space colonization
Grace Hopper	1906	1992	women in computing, COBOL
Graeme Codrington	1970	living	Generational theory, megatrends
H. G. Wells	1866	1946	writer, historian, among the first to think of himself as a futurist
Hans Moravec	1948	living	robotics, AI
Harlan Cleveland	1918	2008	diplomacy
Hazel Henderson	1933	living	cooperative economics
Herman Kahn	1922	1983	military strategist, econo-technical predictions
Hugo de Garis	1947	living	AI
Hugo Gernsback	1884	1967	invented the term "science fiction", wrote the novel Ralph 124C 41+, started science fiction magazines. After whom the Hugo Awards are named.
Isaac Asimov	1920	1992	writer of science and science fiction
Jacque Fresco	1916	living	architect, resource economics, model maker, envisioner of cornucopian world
James Hughes		living	ethics
James Lovelock	1919	living	environmentalist, Gaia hypothesis
Jason Ling	1975	living	social networking, new media technologies and mobile technologies
Jean Fourastié	1907	1990	economist
Jennifer M. Gidley		living	psychologist, educator
Jeremy Rifkin	1945	living	economist, science and tech. critic of various sorts, writer
Jerry Fishenden		living	Microsoft future
Jim Carroll (author)		living	futurist, trends, innovation expert, likes to give talks
Jim Dator		living	politics
Joanne Pransky		living	robotics
Jody Turner		living	brand anthropology
Joël de Rosnay	1937	living	living molecular biology
John Naisbitt	1929	living	"megatrends" author
Jules Verne	1828	1905	aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel
Karel Čapek	1890	1938	fiction writer who invented the word robot
Kevin Warwick	1954	living	robotics
Kim Stanley Robinson	1952	living	novelist known for Mars Trilogy, 2312 (novel), Aurora (novel), and the forthcoming 'New York, 2140'
Krafft Arnold Ehricke	1917	1984	space colonization
Leonardo da Vinci	1452	1519	engineer, inventor, scientist
Lidewij Edelkoort	1950	living	fashion
M. G. Gordon	1915	1969	social studies
Magda Cordell McHale	1921	2008	painter, educator
Mahdi Elmandjra	1933	2014	economist, sociologist
Mark Pesce	1962	living	inventor, writer, engineer
Mark Satin	1946	living	political theory
Mark Stevenson	1971	living	author, entrepreneur, geo-technology
Marshall Brain	1961	living	robotics, transhumanism
Marshall McLuhan	1911	1980	communications
Martin Ford	1963	living	artificial intelligence, robotics, author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Matthew Simmons	1943	2010	peak oil, oil reserves
Meredith Thring	1915	2006	inventor
Michael Crichton	1942	2008	writer; implications of progress in science
Michael E. Arth	1953	living	urban design
Michael Rogers		living	New York Times futurist; MSNBC commentator
Michio Kaku	1947	living	string field theory, expositor
Nayef Al-Rodhan	1959	living	transhumanist, sustainable history, singularity dignity, future geopolitics
Neal Stephenson	1959	living	novelist known for Snow Crash, Anathem, and Seveneves
Nicholas Negroponte	1943	living	OLPC, new technological media
Nick Bostrom	1973	living	[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism
Nikola Tesla	1856	1943	energy, inventor
Orrin H. Pilkey	1934	living	critic of environmentalists[citation needed], coastline erosion
Ossip K. Flechtheim	1909	1998	political scientist
Patrick Dixon	1957	living	business
Peter C. Bishop	1944	living	educator - strategic foresight
Peter Newman	1945	living	sustainability, transport systems, cars and cities
Peter Schwartz	1946	living	China, climate change, business, technology
Phil Salin	1949	1991	cyberspace and the Internet
Philip K. Dick	1928	1982	writer who produced the novels behind Blade Runner and Minority Report
Ray Kurzweil	1948	living	AI, transhumanism, technological singularity, life extension
Raymond Spencer Rodgers	1935	2007	telesphere, food-chain
Renzo Provinciali	1895	1981	anarchist
Richard C. Duncan		living	peak oil
Richard Feynman	1918	1988	physicist, originator of concept of nanotechnology
Richard Moran	1950	living	social scientist
Richard Neville	1941	living	author, reporter
Richard Slaughter	1940	living	sociologist
Robert A. Heinlein	1907	1988	novelist
Robert Anton Wilson	1932	2007	psychonaut, novelist, essayist
Robert Jastrow	1925	2008	NASA scientist, author, spaceflight
Robert Jungk	1913	1994	journalist
Robert Theobald	1929	1999	economics
Robin Hanson	1959	living	prediction markets, singularity, transhumanism
Roger Bacon	1220	1292	Franciscan Friar, Natural Philosopher
Ross Dawson	1962	living	futurist, speaker, author
Ryan O'Shea	1989	living	journalist, speaker, transhumanist
Sohail Inayatullah	1958	living	political scientist
Stanisław Lem	1921	2006	novelist
Stephen Euin Cobb	1955	living	transhumanist
Stewart Brand	1938	living	cognitive science, environmental philosophy, whole systems
Sydney Jay Mead	1933	living	visual futurist
Terence McKenna	1946	2000	philosopher, psychonaut, speaker, ethnobotanist
Ted Nelson	1937	living	writer, philosopher, creator of hypertext concept and Xanadu project
Theodore Modis	1943	living	business, physics
Thomas Frey	1954	living	futurist speaker, technology, social issues
Tim Cannon	1979	living	technology, transhumanist
Timothy Leary	1920	1996	psychologist, psychedelics enthusiast, transhumanist, space migration, life extension
Vannevar Bush	1890	1974	analog computing, envisioned Memex, similar to what the internet is now
W. Warren Wagar	1932	2004	historian
Walt Disney	1901	1966	filmmaker, businessman,[12] created "Tomorrowland" and EPCOT center
Walter Greiling	1900	1986	chemist, sociologist
Warren Ellis	1968	living	writer
Wendell Bell	1924	living	sociology
William Gibson	1948	living	novelist (cyberpunk)[citation needed]
William Gilpin	1813	1894	politician
Willis Harman	1918	1997	sociocultural evolution
Wolfgang Grulke	1947	living	author, business, technology, culture
Ziauddin Sardar	1951	living	Muslim thought

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