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Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be. In religion, major prophets are said to have the … Continue reading →

While ethologists consider animal behavior to be largely based on fixed action patterns or other learned traits in an animal’s past, human behavior is known to encompass an anticipation of the future. Anticipatory behavior can be the result of a … Continue reading →

Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian/Einsteinian relativity in conjunction with certain other philosophical theses which many find uncontroversial. Saint Augustine proposed that the present is a knife … Continue reading →

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Past and future “entities” are to be construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is … Continue reading →

Similarly for mathematics, at least in a sort of comical theory, trying to comprehend and predict the future might be possible if one were to derive the most complex mathematical equation that could ever exist pertaining to the exact flow … Continue reading →

In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline. In special relativity the future is considered as absolute future or the future light cone. In physics, time is considered to be a fourth dimension. Physicists argue that … Continue reading →

The futures field also excludes those who make future predictions through professed supernatural means. At the same time, it does seek to understand the models such groups use and the interpretations they give to these models. Continue reading →

Three factors usually distinguish futures studies from the research conducted by other disciplines (although all disciplines overlap, to differing degrees). First, futures studies often examines not only possible but also probable, preferable, and “wild card” futures. Second, futures studies typically … Continue reading →

Futures is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies, and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in the attempt … Continue reading →

Futures studies does not generally include the work of economists who forecast movements of interest rates over the next business cycle, or of managers or investors with short-term time horizons. Most strategic planning, which develops operational plans for preferred futures … Continue reading →