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Futures Studies, Foresight, Futurism, Futurology, Futures Thinking...What Name???

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This video demystifies the many terms used and misused to refer to the discipline of Futures ad Foresight. The video is also available (with more details) in article format: https://medium.com/@alessandro.fergnani/futures-studies-foresight-futurism-futurology-futures-thinking-what-name-3b3863ceab8c

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REFERENCES:
Sohail Inayatullah's video on what is Futures Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vS9iFHppM&t=1s

Definition of Futures Studies by WFSF: https://wfsf.org/about-us/futures-studies

Rene Rohrbeck on Foresight: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_differences_between_futurology_future_study_and_foresight

Futures Literacy definition by UNESCO: https://en.unesco.org/themes/futures-literacy

Institute for the Future's Futures Thinking specialization on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/futures-thinking

Bell, W. (1997). Foundations of Futures Studies. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, Volume 1.
Sardar, Z. (2010). The Namesake: Futures; futures studies; futurology; futuristic; foresight—What's in a name? Futures, 42(3): 177-184.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001632870900175X

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