Often people ask me why I became a Futurist? The interesting thing is that our minds are set up to plan for the future, perhaps this is why the human species has indeed made it this far. Unfortunately, if we do not plan in advance and throw caution to the wind too often we make rather poor decisions and the law of unintended consequences prevails.

You see, we are all futurists in reality and to what degree of a futurist you are will depend on how far into the future you are willing to think. For some people it is scary, for others it is entertaining and for a few it is very serious.

Originally I joined The World Future Society just to get their book review lists and was not disappointed, that alone was worth the membership fee. To become a futurist all you really have to do is proclaim yourself such and think about the future. Of course if you like to join groups then you can join the WFS or World Future Society.

After a while I became concerned that the WFS were telling everyone what to read and teaching them how to think to become a futurist. They have classes and seminars on how to think like a Futurist. Then it occurred to me, no wonder I am always, or most always correct and the other futurists are often way off in estimating the future.

You see the real problem is that if you tell everyone how to think and what to read they all start thinking the same thing and then verify with each other to prove that they are correct.

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Anyway, I am glad to have considered this for today's article as it brought the fact that the renewal membership is sitting in my "To Do" pile. The Futurists do take some considerable Flak from the media at times and yet at other times the media clings to their every word. Indeed I did defend them against an attack from Wired Magazine, although I do have to say they did deserve a tad bit of criticism, for so many false predictions. Here about 2/3 down the page;



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