Futurist

Nikola Tesla

Technology

1856–1943

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

🇨🇦Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy

1911–1980

"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."

🇵🇱Stanisław Lem

Literature

1921–2006

"To replay human existence — fine, but to replay it in the way a drunk replays a corny tune, pushing coins over and over into the jukebox?"

🇬🇧Arthur C. Clarke

Literature

1917–2008

"There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed but nothing could be done about good men who were deluded."

🇺🇸FM-2030

Sports

1930–2000

"I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."

🇺🇸Michio Kaku

Science

b. 1947

"Killer asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'How's that space program coming along?'" - Anonymous"

🇺🇸Bruce Sterling

Science

b. 1954

"There's no victory-condition for being human."

🇬🇧James Lovelock

Science

1919–2022

"Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog."

🇺🇸Mark Pesce

Education

b. 1962

"I have an axe to grind. I have a fight to pick. I have a hair across my ass. And I want to share."

🇺🇸Alvin Toffler

Technology

1928–2016

"By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education."

🇺🇸Jacque Fresco

Technology

1916–2017

"Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system."

🇫🇷Jules Verne

Literature

1828–1905

"He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem."

Fred Polak

Politics

1907–1985

": Anyone who ponders the future will learn that this is still open to a considerable extent that can be further determined from case to case..."

🇺🇸Herman Kahn

Science

1922–1983

"The final outcome of benevolent, informed, and intelligent decisions may turn out to be disastrous. But choices must be made; dies must be cast."

🇬🇧Kevin Warwick

Politics

b. 1954

"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change."