Outline of futures studies

• Accelerating change • Calculating demand forecast accuracy • Clarke's three laws • Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment • Causal layered analysis • Coolhunting • Decision support systems • Digital library (initiatives) • DIKW pyramid – Harlan Cleveland • Emerging technologies • List of emerging technologies • End of civilization • Eschatology • Failure mode and effects analysis • Forecasting • Foresight • Future • Future Techniques • Future energy development • Global Consciousness Project • Hubbert peak theory • Interdependence • Kardashev scale • Kondratiev wave • Malthusian catastrophe • Memetics • Moore's law • Morphological analysis • Neo-futurism • Omega Point • Optimism bias • Planetary phase of civilization • Planning • Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact • Prediction • Prediction market • Psychohistory (fictional) • Race of the future • Reference class forecasting • Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth • Scenario analysis • Social network analysis • Strategic foresight • Systems theory • Technological singularity • Technology • Technology forecasting • Theory of constraints • Thought experiment • Transhumanism • Twelve leverage points • Ultimate fate of the universe == Futures techniques ==

• Anticipatory thinking • Causal layered analysis (CLA) • Environmental scanning • Scenario method • Horizon scanning • Delphi method • Future history • Monitoring • Backcasting (eco-history) • Cross-impact analysis • Futures workshops • Failure mode and effects analysis • Futures wheel • Technology roadmapping • Social network analysis • Systems engineering • Trend analysis • Morphological analysis • Technology forecasting • Theory U ==Organizations==

• Association of Professional Futurists • Bakken Museum • Club of Rome • Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies • Foundation For the Future • Future of Humanity Institute • Future of Life Institute • The Futures Academy • Global Business Network • Global Scenario Group • Hudson Institute • Institute for Futures Research • Institute for the Future • International Institute of Forecasters • Long Now Foundation • NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts • Naval Postgraduate School • RAND Corporation • Devi Ahilya University • Tellus Institute • The Millennium Project • World Future Society • World Futures Studies Federation Research centers • Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies • Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California • Tellus Institute, Boston, Massachusetts • The Futures Academy, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland • World Futures Studies Federation, world Academic programs • Australia: Australian Catholic University • Australia: Swinburne University of Technology • Argentina: Universidad Nacional de La Plata • Australia: Curtin University of Technology • Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast • Canada: OCAD University • Colombia: Universidad Externado de Colombia • Colombia: Uniandes • Czech Republic: Charles University of Prague • Finland: Turku School of Economics and Business Administration • France: CNAM • Hungary: Corvinus University of Budapest • India: Devi Ahilya University • India: University of Kerala • Italy: Gregorian University • Mexico: Monterrey Institute of Technology • Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University • Russia: Moscow State University • South Africa: Stellenbosch University • South Korea: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology • Taiwan: Tamkang University • Taiwan: Fo Guang University • US: University of Hawaii (Since 1971) • US: University of Houston (Since 2000) • US: Stanford University • US: Regent University ==Futurologists==

Books • The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence • Brave New World • The Communist Manifesto • Future Primitive • Future Shock • Futurewise • The Limits to Growth • Our Final Hour • The Revenge of Gaia • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology • The Skeptical Environmentalist • The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler • Physics of the Impossible • Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Periodicals and monographs • Foresight • Future Orientation Index • Futures • International Journal of Forecasting • Journal of Futures Studies • Technological Forecasting and Social Change ==See also==