Foresight Explained

Foresight most commonly refers to:

• Foresight (psychology), the ability to predict or plan for the future
• Mental time travel or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events
• Precognition, a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future

Foresight or fore sight may also refer to:

• Foresight (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters
• Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy
• Foresight (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999
• Fore sight (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level
• Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology
• Foresight Linux, computer operating system
• Foresight magazine, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha
• Chanting the Light of Foresight, a saxophone composition by Terry Riley
• Corporate foresight, a set of practices and capabilities of a firm
• HMS Foresight, various ships of the British Royal Navy