The Future of Futurists: Can a Machine Produce This Forecast?

摘要

As futurists, we scan articles for social trends and developments in emerging technologies, analyze them, and write scenarios or enlist panels of experts to provide short and long-term forecasts. Ultimately, the results help inform policy makers who are trying to solve complex world problems and businesses that have to make decisions regarding the bottom line. What about the future of our own profession, futurism? Advances in data and cognitive analytics, struggling media companies, and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) are among the trends driving advances (and disruptions) in the knowledge industry, including foresight professionals.