Futurists (not in the sense of futurism) or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose speciality is to attempt to systematically predict the future, whether that of human society in particular or of life on earth in general.
The terms most commonly refer to authors, consultants, organizational leaders and others who engage in interdisciplinary and systems thinking to advise private and public organizations on such matters as diverse global trends, plausible scenarios, emerging market opportunities and risk management.
The Oxford English Dictionary identifies earliest use of the term futurism in English as 1842, to refer, in a theological context, the Christian eschatological tendency of that name. The next recorded use is the label adopted by the Italian and Russian futurists, the artistic, literary and political movements of the 1920s and 1930s which sought to reject the past and fervently embrace speed, technology and, often violent, change.
Visionary writers such as Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy and H.G. Wells were not in their day characterized as futurists. The term futurology in its contemporary sense was first coined in the mid-1940s by the German Professor Ossip K. Flechtheim, who proposed a new science of probability. Flechtheim argued that even if systematic forecasting did no more than unveil the subset of statistically highly probable processes of change and charted their advance, it would still be of crucial social value.
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. He was born to secular Jewish parents who had escaped Austria just before the onset of World War II, and he was exposed via Unitarian Universalism to a diversity of religious faiths during his upbringing. His father was a musician and composer and his mother was a visual artist. His uncle, an engineer at Bell Labs, taught young Ray the basics of computer science. In his youth, he was an avid reader of science fiction literature. In 1963, at age fifteen, he wrote his first computer program. Later in high school he created a pattern-recognition software program that analyzed the works of classical composers, and then synthesized its own songs in similar styles. In 1965, he was invited to appear on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret, where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built. Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.
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You...
I can see what you\'re trying to do
You gimme a look like I should kill
I wanna be so high that I can\'t see no more
Come on!
Hey!
Hey!
And me...
I feel like my blood is running cold
And my heartbeat is going low
I\'m in that special kind of need
I know I\'m going down
I\'ll leave a trail of blood
So don\'t even come my way
It\'ll be a high price you gonna pay
Delusion!
Come on!
Delusion!
Delusion!
Delusion!
We went too far!
Addiction!
Addiction!
Addiction!
We went too far!
I pay you and I betray you
And you don\'t do anything at all
This hell feels too well
We know that everything is wrong
We\'re chained up in the state of liars
And we got nothing more to lose
I know what I want and I know what to do:
I\'m gonna get a gun
Then they gotta give me what I want
\'Cause I\'m the one
Breakdown...
Delusion!
Come on!
Delusion!
Delusion!
Delusion!
We went too far!
Addiction!
Addiction!
Addiction!
We went too far!
How much longer you want to pay?
How much longer you gonna pay?
How much longer [??]?
I want to know!
I want to know!