Children predicted 3 hour flights across the Atlantic, push button telephones, cameras that developed their own photographs and inflation that would quadruple the price of new cars, democratic governments promoting terrorism, and most surprising was the fact of "group predicting" where the collective zeitgeist powered the group with enhanced predictive abilities.
未來學(Futurology)是一個綜合性研究人類重大領域的未來趨勢、可能圖景、面臨的挑戰、應當採取的對策等內容的新學科。未來學也研究預測未來的科學方法。未來學是一項難度很高的研究，因為我們很難集中研究一項尚未發生的事件。
不關注人類現在的行為對未來影響是不負責任的
