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Welcome to r/Futurology, a subreddit devoted to speculation about the future through discussions, images, videos, art, gifs, and tedtalks about technology, civilization, foresight, futurology, futurism, existential risk reduction, space colonization, A.I., the future of humanity, the Singularity, Transhumanism and accelerating change.

If history studies our past and social sciences study our present, what is the study of our future?

The answer is, we have none.

There is a lens to view the past, a lens to study our present, but none to gaze forward into time. While the future may be ultimately unknowable, forecasting, a structure for understanding the future, has laws and methods. But instead of scientific predictions, we leave the future to our artists, to the dreams of Science Fiction, to our prophets, and theologians.

Today, Futurology exists. It has been accepted and merged with the social sciences. However, the term “Futurology", because of its multiplicity of meanings, has been replaced by “the study of the future (future studies)," a term implying the totality of prognostic theory and practice. The idea has been conceived, but the science is yet unborn. There are no professors, no universities, no students of the future, only those of the dead past.

Join us at r/futurology to see the world sub specie aeternitatis, from 'the perspective of the eternal', and outside of time.

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An Introduction to the Community:

• The Future is Ours

• Jason Silva on the Singularity

• Long For This World

• The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

• Xenophon's Law

• The meaning of Infinity

Reads:

The 1st Futurology Manifesto

The Father of Futurology

The Nature of the Future

H.G. Wells: "Professors of Foresight"

The r/Futurology Reading List

AMA's:

• Jerome Glenn, The Millenium Project

• Luke Muehlhauser, SIAI

• Aubrey de Grey, SENS Foundation

• Jason Silva, Filmmaker

• Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Researcher

Other:

• Multi-Reddit of the SFTNetwork

• We're on Wired.com

New: /r/Simulate