"Futurology" as a term was coined in the twentieth century. What counts under that term has changed over time; as such, this list is a jumble, and is intended to be suggestive, not definitive.Notable futurologists include:
| Name | Birth | Death | Field or notable accomplishment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | living | geopolitical futurist, author | |||
| 2000 | Predicting magic 8 balls | 1937 | 2016 | writer, journalist | |
| 1975 | living | academic, environmentalist, social scientist, writer | |||
| 1894 | 1963 | writer of Brave New World, psychedelic prophet | |||
| 1928/1929 | 2016/2019 | ||||
| Anders Sandberg | 1972 | living | human enhancement | ||
| 1961 | living | mathematical modeling of global future[1] | |||
| 1888 | 1956 | space | |||
| 1917 | 2008 | writer | |||
| Ash Koosha | 1985 | living | Futurist Composer and Producer [2] | ||
| Ashis Nandy | 1937 | living | writer on colonialism | ||
| Ben Goertzel | 1966 | living | artificial general intelligence researcher, OpenCog | ||
| 1903 | 1987 | economist | |||
| 1954 | living | UNIX, technology dangers | |||
| 1954 | living | living design, information technology | |||
| 1895 | 1983 | architect, cosmologist, whole-systems thinker, designer/inventor | |||
| 1934 | 1996 | astronomer | |||
| 1948 | living | healthcare | |||
| 1921 | 1965 | ||||
| 1919 | 2011 | "Post-Industrial Society" | |||
| 1947 | living | futurist, business advisor, author | |||
| living | |||||
| 1957 | living | anticipatory anthropology | |||
| 1941 | living | communicator | |||
| 1900 | 1979 | holography | |||
| living | |||||
| 1924 | 2020 | venture capital, strategic foresight, technological singularity | |||
| 1941 | 2001 | systems thinking, leverage points, sustainability | |||
| 1925 | 2013 | hypertext, mouse, interactive computing | |||
| 1961 | living | ||||
| 1960 | living | strategic foresight | [3] [4] [5] media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian, early cyberpunk culture, open source | ||
| 1850 | 1898 | wrote Looking Backward: 2000–1887, a utopia about the future year 2000, economic reorganization | |||
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | 1979 | living | friendly artificial intelligence | ||
| 1929 | 1980 | book The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution | |||
| 1948 | living | popcorn report | |||
| 1930 | 2000 | transhumanist, essayist | |||
| 1907 | 1985 | social studies, wrote The Image of the Future | |||
| 1923 | 2020 | nuclear engineering, disarmament advocate, ideas of Dyson sphere, nuclear space-flight | |||
| 1896 | 1960 | ||||
| 1921 | 1991 | creator of the Star Trek franchise. | |||
| Genevieve Bell | 1968 | living | cultural anthropologist and technologist | ||
| 1970 | living | transhumanist | |||
| 1949 | living | geopolitics | |||
| 1939 | living | society | |||
| 1903 | 1950 | writer (wrote 1984) | |||
| 1946 | living | ||||
| 1927 | 1992 | envisioned space colonization | |||
| 1954 | 2016 | politics, internet | |||
| 1906 | 1992 | women in computing, COBOL | |||
| 1866 | 1946 | writer, historian, among the first to think of himself as a futurist | |||
| 1948 | living | robotics, AI | |||
| 1918 | 2008 | diplomacy | |||
| 1933 | 2022 | cooperative economics | |||
| 1922 | 1983 | military strategist, econo-technical predictions | |||
| 1947 | living | AI | |||
| 1884 | 1967 | invented the term "science fiction", wrote the novel Ralph 124C 41+, started science fiction magazines. After him the Hugo Awards are named. | |||
| 1980 | living | Long term future of the space industry and colonization, physicist, YouTube personality | |||
| 1920 | 1992 | writer of science and science fiction, created the Three Laws of Robotics. | |||
| 1916 | 2017 | architect, resource economics, model maker, envisioner of cornucopian world | |||
| 1961 | living | ethics | |||
| 1919 | 2022 | environmentalist, Gaia hypothesis, Global warming theorist | |||
| 1907 | 1990 | economist | |||
| 1922 | 1978 | artist, sociologist | |||
| 1945 | living | economist, science and tech. critic of various sorts, writer | |||
| living | Microsoft future | ||||
| living | politics | ||||
| 1959 | 2023 | ||||
| 1937 | living | molecular biology | |||
| living | author, science communicator, futurist, YouTube personality | ||||
| 1929 | 2021 | wrote Megatrends | |||
| 1962 | living | engineer, economist, and author of La Muerte de la Muerte | |||
| 1828 | 1905 | previsioned aviation, spaceflight, submarine travel | |||
| 1890 | 1938 | fiction writer who invented the word robot | |||
| 1818 | 1883 | predicted societal and economic development on the basis of dialectical materialism[6] | |||
| 1952 | living | founding executive editor of Wired magazine and author of multiple futurology books | |||
| 1954 | living | robotics | |||
| 1952 | living | novelist known for Mars Trilogy, 2312 (novel), Aurora (novel), and the forthcoming 'New York, 2140' | |||
| 1917 | 1984 | ||||
| 1452 | 1519 | engineer, inventor, scientist | |||
| 1950 | living | fashion | |||
| 1915 | 1969 | social studies | |||
| 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator | |||
| 1933 | 2014 | economist, sociologist | |||
| 1962 | living | inventor, writer, engineer | |||
| 1946 | living | political theory | |||
| 1971 | living | author, entrepreneur, geo-technology | |||
| 1961 | living | robotics, transhumanism | |||
| 1911 | 1980 | communications | |||
| 1963 | living | artificial intelligence, robotics, author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future | |||
| 1943 | 2010 | peak oil, oil reserves | |||
| Max More | 1964 | living | Extropy Institute | ||
| 1915 | 2006 | inventor | |||
| 1942 | 2008 | writer; implications of progress in science | |||
| living | New York Times futurist; MSNBC commentator | ||||
| Michel Saloff Coste | 1955 | living | art, Club of Budapest | ||
| 1947 | living | string field theory, expositor | |||
| Mitchell Joachim | 1972 | living | ecological designMichel de Nostredame | ||
| Natasha Vita-More | 1950 | living | Humanity+ | ||
| 1959 | living | novelist known for Snow Crash, Anathem, and Seveneves | |||
| 1943 | living | OLPC, new technological media | |||
| 1973 | living | [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] 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 | |||
| Nicolas De Santis | 1966 | living | Corporate Visioning, author, tech entrepreneur, founder Opodo | ||
| 1856 | 1943 | energy, inventor | |||
| 1829 | 1903 | renewable energy, life extension/immortality, tranhumanism, space colonization | |||
| 1934 | living | critic of environmentalists, coastline erosion | |||
| 1909 | 1998 | political scientist | |||
| 1957 | living | business | |||
| 1944 | living | educator - strategic foresight | |||
| Peter Diamandis | 1961 | living | Singularity University | ||
| 1945 | living | sustainability, transport systems, cars and cities | |||
| 1946 | living | China, climate change, business, technology | |||
| 1949 | 1991 | cyberspace and the Internet | |||
| 1928 | 1982 | writer who produced the novels behind Blade Runner and Minority Report | |||
| 1948 | living | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity, life extension | |||
| 1935 | 2007 | telesphere, food-chain | |||
| 1895 | 1981 | anarchist | |||
| 1918 | 1988 | ||||
| 1950 | living | social scientist | |||
| 1941 | 2016 | author, reporter | |||
| 1940 | living | sociologist | |||
| 1907 | 1988 | novelist | |||
| 1932 | 2007 | psychonaut, novelist, essayist | |||
| 1925 | 2008 | NASA scientist, author, spaceflight | |||
| 1913 | 1994 | journalist | |||
| 1929 | 1999 | economics | |||
| 1959 | living | prediction markets, singularity, transhumanism | |||
| 1220 | 1292 | Franciscan Friar, Natural Philosopher | |||
| 1962 | living | futurist, speaker, author | |||
| 1967 | living | "flatpack futures" | |||
| Sinead Bovell | 1989 | living | Blogger | ||
| 1958 | living | political scientist | |||
| 1921 | 2006 | novelist | |||
| Stephen Hawking | 1942 | 2018 | astrophysics, cosmology [14] [15] | ||
| 1938 | living | cognitive science, environmental philosophy, whole systems | |||
| 1933 | 2019 | ||||
| 1946 | 2000 | philosopher, psychonaut, speaker, ethnobotanist | |||
| 1937 | living | writer, philosopher, creator of hypertext concept and Xanadu project | |||
| 1943 | living | business, physics | |||
| 1954 | living | futurist speaker, technology, future jobs, future of work, future crimes, future of transportation, unanswerable question | |||
| 1979 | living | technology, transhumanist | |||
| 1920 | 1996 | ||||
| 1890 | 1974 | analog computing, envisioned Memex, similar to what the internet is now | |||
| 1932 | 2004 | historian | |||
| 1901 | 1966 | filmmaker, businessman,[16] created "Tomorrowland" and a concept Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (referred to by acronym EPCOT) | |||
| 1900 | 1986 | chemist, sociologist | |||
| 1968 | living | writer | |||
| 1924 | 2019 | sociology | |||
| 1948 | living | novelist (cyberpunk) | |||
| 1813 | 1894 | politician | |||
| 1918 | 1997 | ||||
| 1951 | living | Muslim thought | |||