H.G. Wells
Author of Time Machine, Open Conspiracy, New World Order, novelist, futurist, science fiction writer, fascist, socialist propaganist for the Royal Society, feminist, feminism activist
Alan Watt living
screenwriter for Out There TV, lecturer, podcaster on Cutting Through the Matrix, CIA whistleblower
1965- (59)
cuttingthroughthematrix.com
Alvin Toffler
futurist, writer, author of Future Shock (1970), businessman
1928-2016 (88)
tofflerassociates.com
Arthur C. Clarke
Futurist, satellites, inventor, author, science fiction writer
1917-2008 (91)
biography.com
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Futurist, author, public speaker, birthing of humanity, author of Happy Birth Day Planet Earth, The Synergy Engine, her father was Louis Marx a toymaker
1929-2019 (90)
barbaramarxhubbard.com
Ben Goertzel living
Ai researcher at SingularityNet, transhumanist, pioneer in artifical general intelligence (AGI), computer scientist, futurist, Ai enthusiast
1966- (58)
Bernard Shaw
Playwright, writer, literary critic, polemicst, political activist, pioneer of reformed Marxism or international socialism, leader at the Fabian Society
1856-1950 (94)
Bertrand Russell
Marxist philosopher of the Frankfurt School (Fabian Society), mathematician, logician, historian, writer, author of The Scientific Outlook, pioneer in neo-liberalism, political activist, author of Why I am not a Christian
1872-1970 (98)
plato.stanford.edu
R. "Bucky" Buckminster Fuller
futurist, architect aka Bucky Fuller, scientist, inventor of the geodesic dome, systems theorist, author, Grunch of Giants, Utopia or Oblivion
David Icke
Bestselling author, The Answer, The Biggest Secret, writer, social scientist, psychologist, futurist, conspiracy theorist, football, political commentator, politics, keynote speaker, owner of Ickonic
Edward L. Bernays
creative marketer who staged a political stunt for womens liberation where in fashionable ladies were smoking Torches of Freedom, social manipulator, brainwasher, propagandist, pioneer in greedy advertising and self-gratification, father of public relations aka Eddie Bernays, Ed Bernays, psychologist, author of Propaganda, Engineering of Consent, Crystallizing Public Opinion, nephew of Sigmund Freud the grandfather of psychoanalysis
Frederik Pohl
Futurist, science fiction writer, poet, wrote the poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna"
George Orwell
novelist, writer, author of 1984, Animal Farm (1945), suffered from tuberculosis, MI5/MI6 intelligence officer
1903-1950 (47)
Herman Kahn
Military strategist, futurist, founder of the Hudson Institute, director at RAND Corporation, author of The Year 2000, On Thermonuclear War that which inspired "Dr. Strangelove" based on the Doomsday Machine
lindahall.org
Adolf Hitler
Führer aka Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany in 1933, military veteran injuired twice in battle, supreme commander of the Wehrmacht German armed forces, politician of the Third Reich, National Socialists German Workers Party (Nazi Party), sentenced for 5 years (served 12 months) in 1924, writer, author of Mein Kampf (My Struggle/My Fight), previous homeless fanatic artist of erotic hand drawings, his German Labour Front organization founded Volkswagen in 1933
1889-1945 (56)
britannica.com
Jacques Attali living
Philosopher, futurist, social thinker, co-founder of EUREKA European club, author of A Brief History of the Future, political strategist for the President of France from 1981-1991, president of PlanetFinance, former president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, founder of PlaNet Finance, Action Against Hunger, political activist
1943- (81)
attali.com
John L. Petersen
Futurist, US Navy, military veteran
arlingtoninstitute.org
Margaret Sanger
Founder of Planned Parenthood, opened the 1st birth control clinic in the United States, eugenicist, the Negro Project
1879-1966 (87)
Michio Kaku
Futurist, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist, environmentalist, author of Physics of the Future, The Future of the Mind, The God Equation
mkaku.org
Nostradamus
fortune teller, author of Les Prophéties, futurist, astrologer, physician, apothecary
1503-1566 (63)
Orson Welles
Screenwriter, film director, actor, film producer of Citizen Kane, Magnum PI, one of the most influential filmmakers of all time
1915-1985 (70)
biography.com
Ray Kurzweil living
Futurist, author of Superintelligence, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, singularity, computer scientist, inventor, pioneer in optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, director of engineering at Google (Alphabet), consumed 250 supplements daily to beat cancer and diabetes
1948- (76)
Dr. Richard Day
Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical School, medical director of Planned Parenthood Federation, futurist who predicted the Internet
1905-1989 (84)
jpeds.com
Rudyard Kipling
Victorian poet, short stories, poems, novelist of Jungle Book, journalist, short-story writer, author of The Man Who Would Be King, fascist of the Running Cross
1865-1936 (71)
poetryfoundation.org
Thomas (T.H.) Huxley
Anthropologist, biologist, known as Darwin's bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, father of Aldous & Julian Huxley, mentor to H.G. Wells, author of Evolution and Ethics in 1894
1825-1895 (70)
ucmp.berkeley.edu
Thomas Morley
Composer of Now Is the Month of Maying, organic, music theorist, singer
1557-1602 (45)
biography.yourdictionary.com
Willis Harman
Futurist, engineer, known for writing a paper referenced by Millenium
Yuval Noah Harari
Futurist, pioneer in transhumanism, historian, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, advisor to Klaus Schwab