Futurists
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.1,532,627 followers | Follow
Science Channel
Thought-provoking updates, insider news and more from Science...show your #nerdtweet pride!392,854 followers | Follow
Cory Doctorow
Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/222,508 followers | Follow
Richard Florida
Urbanist, Author, Professor, Researcher, Talker, Bike Rider, Guitar Player140,122 followers | Follow
Tim Berners-Lee
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) w3.org, the place to agree on web standards. Founded webfoundation.org - let the web serve humanity61,468 followers | Follow
Dave Winer ☮
Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. Media hacker. Boot strapper. Writer. Academic. Friendly. :-)44,766 followers | Follow
FUTURE Patrick Dixon
FUTURIST, 13.5 MILLION VISITORS WEB, 4m video views, author 14 books. RANKED ONE OF 20 MOST INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS THINKERS IN WORLD (2005). Keynote Speaker42,168 followers | Follow
Don Tapscott
Author (most recent book Macrowikinomics), consulting company CEO, Hammond B3 player, striving to live a principled life of consequence.33,727 followers | Follow
John Perry Barlow
I co-founded EFF, wrote songs for the Dead, ranched in Wyoming for 17 years. A weird father, a good friend, and an excellent ex.31,549 followers | Follow
Bob Richards
Space entrepreneur. Orphan of Apollo. A Founder of the International Space University, Singularity University, SEDS, Odyssey Moon & Moon Express (CEO).31,168 followers | Follow
Ross Dawson
Futurist/ Entrepreneur/ Keynote Speaker/ Author and contributor to global brain. A visual slice of my neural activity: http://bit.ly/AHTGpBizModel28,918 followers | Follow
Jane McGonigal
I make and play games. My New York Times bestselling book is Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World http://amzn.to/rr5luD27,351 followers | Follow
Esther Dyson
Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson26,156 followers | Follow
YES! Magazine
Award-winning, solution-oriented journalism covering peace, justice and sustainability innovations in the US and beyond. Independent, nonprofit media.24,573 followers | Follow
sciencedaily
Visit ScienceDaily to read breaking news about the latest discoveries in science, health, the environment, and technology.23,583 followers | Follow
Gerd Leonhard
Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Strategist, Blogger, Author http://gerd.fm/focbook + CEO of @FuturesAgency Blog: http://www.futureof.biz new: @agreenfuturist21,819 followers | Follow
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor @Harvard_Law, @Kennedy_School, @HSEAS Comp Sci Dept. + @BerkmanCenter; @EFF and @InternetSociety board member18,818 followers | Follow
smarterplanet
Official Smarter Planet Twitter account. Managed by Kevin Winterfield and George Faulkner. Follows the IBM Social Computing Guidelines.16,339 followers | Follow
Amber Case
Cyborg Anthropologist studying the interaction between humans and technology. UX Designer. TED Speaker. Co-founder of Geoloqi.com.12,667 followers | Follow
Nova Spivack
Serial Web entrepreneur & venture producer. Follow for news & ideas about emerging tech, innovation and startups. Full bio: http://novaspivack.com/about12,167 followers | Follow
Cindy FrewenWuellner
architect, futurist, urban designer, rhetorician, adjunct prof, treehugger, former biz owner now a writer/analyst exploring city futures, reborn from @cindyfw.10,144 followers | Follow
Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub is a blog and twitter feed covering the latest in robotics, human enhancement, genetics, nanotech, longevity, AI, the brain, etc.9,066 followers | Follow
Singularity U
Nonprofit working to educate & inspire leaders to apply accelerating technologies to address global challenges! Next Executive Program April 11-18, 20117,470 followers | Follow
john seely brown
Chief of Confusion but was Chief Scientist of Xerox and head of the PARC. Big believer in the importance of cultivating imagination & a questing disposition.7,408 followers | Follow
Keno Nitro
physical - philosophical MindGames / EMC8 - the Theory of Everything / Interdisciplinarity / http://kn-p.com6,954 followers | Follow
Mike Walsh
Author of 'Futuretainment', keynote speaker, futurist, and authority on digital trends in emerging markets. Traveling the world looking for patterns.6,464 followers | Follow
Steve Brown
CEO of Catch.com, a mobile, cloud-based, personal information management system. Founder & former CEO of Health Hero Network (now Bosch Healthcare).5,772 followers | Follow
David Houle
futurist,speaker,advisor to CEOs, father, husband, living slightly ahead of the curve5,634 followers | Follow
Reality Sandwich
Tweets from and inspired by the evolutionary webzine about transformative cultures5,396 followers | Follow
EnlightenNext
EnlightenNext: Dedicated to a revolution in consciousness and culture.5,345 followers | Follow
Graeme Codrington
Futurist, speaker, board advisor, author, researcher - Tracking trends that are shaping the changing world of work; helping clients thrive in uncertain times5,205 followers | Follow
jimcarroll
Futurist, trends and innovation expert -- Author, columnist, frequent keynote speaker, nice guy5,156 followers | Follow
Thomas Frey
Futurist speaker, architect of the future, author of Communicating with the Future, senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute, NSA, www.futuristspeaker.com4,887 followers | Follow
Mike Morrell
Futurist @KedgeForward. Grad Fellow, Strategic Foresight MA @RegentU. Wild Gooser. Provocateur, David Group Int'l. Journalist. Nu-media publicist. Opti-mystic.4,774 followers | Follow
Jamais Cascio
Investigator of the plausibly surreal. Writer, Speaker, Futurist.4,669 followers | Follow
Estelle Metayer
Relentlessly tracking strategic blindspots. I tweet about CEOs futurists boards governance trends innovation strategy competitive intelligence analysis.4,541 followers | Follow
Futurity News
Futurity presents news from leading research universities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Discover the future—directly from the source.4,502 followers | Follow
h+ Magazine
h+ Magazine covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.4,043 followers | Follow
Kristin Alford
futurist | technologist | communicator @_bridge8. Interested in lots of things important and trivial. Organiser of TEDxAdelaide.3,886 followers | Follow
John Lester
3D Simulations and Virtual Worlds for Education. Chief Learning Officer, ReactionGrid Inc.3,593 followers | Follow
Education Futures
Exploring new futures for learning and human capital development.3,582 followers | Follow
World Future Society
The Twitterfeed of the World Future Society. Follow our conference speakers here: http://twitter.com/WorldFutureSoc/worldfuture2012-speakers3,534 followers | Follow
The Futurist
Future tweets brought to you from Patrick Tucker, deputy editor of THE FUTURIST magazine.3,336 followers | Follow
David Orban
CEO, dotSUB / Covering cycle after cycle of getting deeper into stuff, and abstracting again. And the cycles are getting shorter and shorter.3,206 followers | Follow
Future of Packaging
Thoughts on the future of packaging by Leading Futurists LLC principals Jennifer Jarratt @jenjarratt and John Mahaffie @jbmahaffie3,191 followers | Follow
Dominique Jaurola
Founder of Hunome, co-author- Strategic Foresight: The Power of Standing in the Future, humanity explorer, pragmatic dreamer for better futures3,087 followers | Follow
Emile HOOGE
Exploring cities & social innovation in a digital age [FR & ENG] - Futures researcher, user researcher, services designer2,978 followers | Follow
Vinay Gupta
Beyond good taste and evil. Global resilience guru. What do you do after it all goes wrong? And what about the poor, for whom it's never yet been right?2,843 followers | Follow
Nigel Cameron
thinking | speaking | tweeting | blogging || future | tech | policy | values || c-pet.org | nigelcameron.org || speaking for myself2,841 followers | Follow
Christine Egger
#empathy #compassion #creativity #business #open #data #meaning #alignment2,788 followers | Follow
heathervescent
Futurist. Technologist. Cacophonist! ~ Unapologetic Angelino ~ Innovation Leader for Swift Americas ~ sometimes, dreaming the impossible to reality2,707 followers | Follow
joshua fouts
ExecDir @ScienceHouseFdn. Digital anthropologist. Online journo. Photog. Writer. Culture Nerd. Language geek. Quando no Brasil: Não perca o verde de vista!2,540 followers | Follow
Future Feed
Group account of @futuresagency, curated by @stoweboyd (^SB) and @gleonhard (^GL), tracking the future of media, communications, business, energy and technology2,533 followers | Follow
Michael Anissimov
The Singularity holds out the possibility of winning the Grand Prize, the true Utopia, the best-of-all-possible-worlds. -- E. Yudkowsky2,423 followers | Follow
Stuart Candy
Australasia Foresight + Innovation Leader, Arup // Adjunct Professor, DMBA, California College of the Arts // Research Fellow, The Long Now Foundation2,354 followers | Follow
George Dvorsky
Futurist, transhumanist, bioethicist, Buddhist, animal rights advocate, public speaker, operations guru, CrossFitter, primal eater, Burner, and music freak.2,303 followers | Follow
DaVinciGroup
Inventors,Entrepreneurs,Futurist,Futurist speaker,author,writer,events,2,244 followers | Follow
Daniel Rasmus
Analyst, strategist, knowledge economy pioneer, challenger of assumptions, synthesizer & pattern recognizer, connector of people & ideas. Author, poet, Dad.2,203 followers | Follow
Ben Goertzel
2,134 followers | Follow
Dr. James Canton
Global futurist, business adviser, keynote presenter, entrepreneur, CEO & Chairman Institute for Global Futures, author Extreme Future & Technofutures.2,096 followers | Follow
chris arkenberg
Research, forecast, & strategy from the Left Coast. Tech, new media, energy, geopol, complex systems. Beatmaker, surfer, nature lover.1,985 followers | Follow
Zaq Mosher
Transhumanist, collectively intelligent, aesthete, polymath & polytopian, abundance geek, technoshaman...plain and simple? ;P1,865 followers | Follow
Karen M Arvidsson
Create proactive change, Strategic Foresight / Futurist, Creative, HR, L&D, Psych & ICT/games geek, ADD, Mother. Leap small buildings in 1 bound.1,857 followers | Follow
linda carroli
Place, People, Product, Potential, Partnership + Pollinating @ Harbinger Consultants. Deputy Chair, RDA Brisbane. Writer on urban issues, culture & innovation.1,823 followers | Follow
frankspencer
Principal @ the foresight, innovation, & strategic design consultancy Kedge. Passionate about business opportunity, social innovation, and global resilience.1,819 followers | Follow
Mitch Betts
Editor at CIO magazine and CIO.com. Interests: CIOs, strategic foresight, trends, innovation, market research and competitive intelligence.1,809 followers | Follow
Scott Smith
Principal at Changeist, LLC, a foresight + strategic design consultancy. ssmith @ changeist.com1,787 followers | Follow
Jack Uldrich
Your Chief Unlearning Officer. Author of the forthcoming books, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisites for Achieving a Successful Future and Unlearning 101.1,768 followers | Follow
Adam Gordon
Foresight Project Manager, Facilitator, Educator, Speaker. Author: Future Savvy1,753 followers | Follow
John Moravec
Knowmad & Education Futurist at the University of Minnesota - writing at Education Futures: www.educationfutures.com1,670 followers | Follow
Immersive Labs
Immersive Labs develops facial detection technology designed to adapt and optimize content in real-time.1,618 followers | Follow
Paul Roberts
Condemned to work on interesting things. I work for the ACMA but these thoughts are my own.1,599 followers | Follow
GlenHiemstra
Founder of Futurist.com, speaker, author, consultant. Also a hiker & family guy. I focus on preferred futures and cool ideas for creating a better world.1,587 followers | Follow
Eric Garland
Professional bassist and strategic intelligence consultant...in that order, I think. Author of two books on thinking about the future. Linguist. Bon vivant.1,578 followers | Follow
Ellen Naylor
Market Research, Innovation, Sales Intelligence, Win Loss interviewer, SWOT, Competitive Intelligence, Cooperative Intelligence, Social Media, Author, Speaker1,575 followers | Follow
Emily C. Rushing
Law firm Competitive Intelligence (CI) ; Law libraries; Research / Reference; Law; Legal; Cooking, reading, and reading about cooking. http://gplus.to/egrushing1,517 followers | Follow
Graham Leicester 雷思达
International Futures Forum: practical hope. wise initiative. effective action in conceptual emergencies.1,473 followers | Follow
Future Conscience
Futurist blog exploring human progress through the eyes of a future conscience - Science & Environment | Religion & Spirituality | Communication & Technology1,468 followers | Follow
notthisbody
narrative architects. technographers. pixel[re]searchers, img workers. space cadets. emographers. polytopians. knowmads in junto - digital parkour. Tweets: IMS1,410 followers | Follow
Garry Golden
Father! Professional Futurist (M.S. Futures Studies); Twitter topics: Learning Systems, WebDev, Energy, Transportation, Nano-Bio, Demographics, Markets, Art1,396 followers | Follow
Transhumanistic
Tweets about transhumanism, the singularity, nanotech, biotech, life extension and overall human enhancement.1,357 followers | Follow
Paul Higgins
Futurist interested in technology, disruption by the internet, new business models, social media, social enterprise. Also skier, cook,cyclist,stepfather,1,332 followers | Follow
FUTUREPerspective
Elaine Cameron B-M EMEA's Futurist writes FUTURE Perspective qtrly newsletter focusing on trends with concrete comms impacts1,261 followers | Follow
spacecollective
A think tank about the future — living the lives of science fiction today. Current admin for Mission Control: @notthisbody1,190 followers | Follow
Josh Calder
Foresight in geopolitics, global trends, and security affairs (with an eye on science fiction)1,156 followers | Follow
Transhumanists
Singularity, Transhumanism, Emerging Technology, Human Enhancement, Solar Energy, Stem Cells, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics1,123 followers | Follow
Justin Pickard
Gonzo futurist talking technoculture, #collapsonomics, and the weird contours of C21. Grizzled optimist, pirate, rōnin. Associate at @Superflux.1,066 followers | Follow
Willi Schroll
foresight expert • technology analyst • 360° thinking • Likes: social innovation wave, design thinking, changemaker1,057 followers | Follow
Jim Mathews
Futurist specializing in emerging technologies. Cocktail hobbyist http://bit.ly/Wzb5n http://www.utahmixologist.com1,042 followers | Follow
John Smart
Futurist Author, Educator, Speaker & Consultant. Developing an M.S. in Emerging Tech for UAT in Phoenix, AZ. President, Acceleration Studies Foundation992 followers | Follow
P2P Foundation
Observing the impact of peer-to-peer, technology and thought on society. Keep updated by folllowing us!990 followers | Follow
Maree Conway
Strategic foresight practitioner using environmental scanning/scenarios/long term thinking to help people in organisations build sustainable strategy.988 followers | Follow
ShiftAgeTrendReport
Shift Age Trend Research, Transforming Corporations for the 21st century, Future and Global Trends/Forecasts from the CEO's Futurist, David Houle984 followers | Follow
Martin Börjesson
Scenario planner, futurist and strategist - constantly working with how future emerges in the complex interrelation between humans, society and technology974 followers | Follow
Eric Grant
social entrepreneur, futurist, technologist, educator, biker, burner, troublemaker, twittersnob. current: splunk, burning man, winged pigs, stanford.952 followers | Follow
Future Agenda
Future Agenda, sponsored by Vodafone, is an open foresight programme which addresses some of the major challenges of the next decade.946 followers | Follow
Jake Dunagan
Research Director, IFTF; Ph.D. UH-Manoa; Exploring life in the Neurocentric Age; designing experiential futures, using paranomasia as a research method.939 followers | Follow
Christina Gavino
| creative being | cultural anthropologist | active world citizen | futurist | provocateur904 followers | Follow
andy hines
Hinesight for speaking, workshops & consulting; also teaching Futures Studies at the U of Houston Masters Program840 followers | Follow
John B. Mahaffie
Futurist since 1987, Dad since 1992. Research, workshops, talks on the future. Writing, family history/genealogy, Klondike Gold Rush, Jazz Age and the 1920s815 followers | Follow
mathias crawford
I design games at Natron Baxter (@natronbaxter) and write about games for Kill Screen Magazine (@killscreenmag). PhD Student @Stanford.805 followers | Follow
AGSE Foresight
Sharing insight, futures thinking, feeding/nurturing organisational, personal & social outcomes. Connecting Strategic Foresight minds. Manager @creatingchange789 followers | Follow
Mark Fowler
My passion is ANTICIPATION ~ a continuous Internet hunt for emerging weak signals of potentially significant change and opportunity. Designing better futures!772 followers | Follow
Mike Jackson
Chairman of Shaping Tomorrow, futurist, trend watcher, strategist, change agent, innovator, speaker, author, entrepreneur, networker760 followers | Follow
Wendy L Schultz
Futurist / Emergentista: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hawaii, Texas, England -- track change, explore possibilities, envision sustainable success.750 followers | Follow
Christopher Barnatt
Futurist, lecturer and videographer. Author of ''25 Things You Need to Know About the Future''.739 followers | Follow
futuristspeaker
Glen Hiemstra, futurist.com Founder, leading futurist speaker in U.S., follow speech announcements here, track tweets @glenhiemstra636 followers | Follow
futureofcities
News, research and dialogue exploring global urbanization in the 21st century617 followers | Follow
Spaceweaver
I am too overqualified to be just myself, therefore I must evolve...602 followers | Follow
ImmortalityInstitute
Life Extension. Healthy living. Anti-aging research. Mission: To conquer the blight of involuntary death.590 followers | Follow
Bill Burris
Electronics Tech / Programmer in the Physics Department at the University of Alberta, interested in all things science and tech, C++, C#, verilog586 followers | Follow
Brent Kearney
I.T. Jedi, programmer, future gazer, autodidact, interested in health & nutrition, romantic, loves to play outside.570 followers | Follow
Peter Bishop
Professional futurist and Director of Master's program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston533 followers | Follow
catt avery
Conceptual Artist:: Futurist and Mobile Kids strategist. Bioregional hive mind weaver.500 followers | Follow
Keith Prather
Corporate Troubleshooter, Opportunist, Futurist, Editor Armada Executive Intelligence Briefing494 followers | Follow
Christopher Kent
Futurist. Looking at the long-term future of [something something something]481 followers | Follow
Paul B. Hartzog
father, husband, futurist, designer, drummer, musician. Into scifi, lego, panarchy, complexity, ecology, cooperation, commons, culture, politics, and economics.459 followers | Follow
Mike Treder
Managing Director at Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies452 followers | Follow
Sonja Henrici
446 followers | Follow
Christian Crews
Strategy and foresight professional, Principal of AndSpace Consulting, a foresight, design, strategy firm377 followers | Follow
entanglement (p/m)
fluid framework defining constraints of unintentionality. help activate awareness of entanglement. the deep level interplay of realities and their patterns.375 followers | Follow
Jessica Charlesworth
361 followers | Follow
Christopher Harris
Neuroscience PhD student with an interest neural networks, dopamine and neuromodulation. Also does science communication and web development at www.iplant.eu.355 followers | Follow
Symbiosis Economics
309 followers | Follow
Houston Futures
Thinking better about the future. Preparing foresight professionals...291 followers | Follow
Stephen T Gordon
Futurist, optimist, blogger at The Speculist (http://www.blog.speculist.com), and podcaster on FastForward Radio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio)258 followers | Follow
Johan Eklund
Tech-oriented psychologist interested in: visual communication, human-robot interaction & social + learning technology239 followers | Follow
Alan Alves Fortes
Social Media trends follower. Sustainable futurist. Open source advocate. Welcoming the great shift in economy & society. Radical innovation admirer.157 followers | Follow
Glenys McLaughlin
I combine research with hands-on technology development to provide a unique insight into the technologies that are transforming business, society, the future.119 followers | Follow
Antonio Orlando
Usually creates and/or tries to create useful and/or beautiful things for himself and/or someone and/or World.85 followers | Follow
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