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Foresight (futures Studies)
Foresight most commonly refers to: * Foresight (psychology), the ability to predict or plan for the future * Mental time travel or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events * Precognition, a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future Foresight or fore sight may also refer to: * ''Foresight'' (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters * Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy * ''Foresight'' (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999 * Fore sight (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level * Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology * Foresight Linux, computer operating system * Foresight magazine, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha * '' Chanting the Light of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight (psychology)
Foresight is the ability to predict, or the action of predicting, what will happen or what is needed in the future. Studies suggest that much of human thought is directed towards potential future events. Because of this, the nature and evolution of foresight is an important topic in psychology. Thinking about the future is studied under the label prospection. Neuroscientific, developmental, and cognitive studies have identified many similarities to the human ability to recall past episodes. ''Science'' magazine selected evidence for such similarities as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2007. However, fundamental differences separate mentally travelling through time into the future (i.e., foresight) versus mentally travelling through time into the past (i.e., episodic memory). Uses Foresight has been classified as a behaviour (covert and/or overt) in management. Review, analysis Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mental Time Travel
In psychology, mental time travel is the capacity to mentally reconstruct personal events from the past (episodic memory) as well as to imagine possible scenarios in the future (episodic foresight/episodic future thinking). The term was coined by Thomas Suddendorf and Michael Corballis, building on Endel Tulving's work on episodic memory. (Tulving proposed the alternative term chronesthesia.) Mental time travel has been studied by psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, philosophers and in a variety of other academic disciplines. Major areas of interest include the nature of the relationship between memory and foresight, the evolution of the ability (including whether it is uniquely human or shared with other animals), its development in young children, its underlying brain mechanisms, as well as its potential links to consciousness, the self, and free will. Overview, terminology, and relationship to other cognitive capacities Declarative memory refers to the capacity to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause. Precognition has been widely believed in throughout history. Despite the lack of scientific evidence, many people believe it to be real; it is still widely reported and remains a topic of research and discussion within the parapsychology community. Precognitive phenomena Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future. It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive prophecy and fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight (forecasting Journal)
''Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting'' is a forecasting journal published quarterly by the International Institute of Forecasters. ''Foresight'' was launched in 2005 as a practitioner-focused companion to the IIF's '' International Journal of Forecasting''. ''Foresight'' publishes peer-reviewed articles written by academics and business forecasters on topics including design and management of forecasting processes, forecasting models, integrating forecasting into business planning Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. Some researchers regard the evolution of forethought - the cap ..., sales forecasting, prediction markets, reviews of forecasting tools and books, sales and operations planning (S&OP), improving forecasting accuracy, and demand forecasting. All ''Foresight'' back issues and articles are i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight (futures Studies)
Foresight most commonly refers to: * Foresight (psychology), the ability to predict or plan for the future * Mental time travel or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events * Precognition, a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future Foresight or fore sight may also refer to: * ''Foresight'' (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters * Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy * ''Foresight'' (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999 * Fore sight (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level * Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology * Foresight Linux, computer operating system * Foresight magazine, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha * '' Chanting the Light of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight (futures Studies Journal)
''Foresight: The Journal of Futures Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy'' is an international bi-monthly journal published by the Emerald Publishing Group. The name connotes the term " foresight" as it is used in futures studies. Established in 1999, the journal provides a powerful framework and set of techniques that allow for understanding trends and drivers shaping the world, exploring alternative futures, setting priorities and formulating strategies for action. Foresight is a valuable source for futurists and foresight practitioners who should be at the forefront of discovering practical ways to manage 21st century life under growing complexity with a long-term perspective. The journal offers a much-needed forum for sound thinking about the future and socio-technological innovations, and focuses on themes and issues shaping the future, new quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as case studies with novel approaches. The journal is edited by Prof.Dr. Ozcan Saritas s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fore Sight (surveying)
This is a glossary of levelling terms. Levelling is a surveying method used to find relative height, one use of which is to ensure ground is level during construction, for example, when excavating to prepare for laying a foundation for a house. Levelling terms * Automatic level – variant of the dumpy level, that makes use of a compensator that ensures that the line of sight remains horizontal once the operator has roughly leveled the instrument. The surveyor sets the instrument up quickly and doesn't have to relevel it carefully each time he sights on a rod on another point. It also reduces the effect of minor settling of the tripod. Three adjustment screws are used to level the instrument. * Back sight (BS) – short for "back sight reading", the first staff reading taken by the surveyor after the levelling instrument is set up and levelled. B.S is generally taken on the point of known reduced level as on the benchmark or a change point. * Benchmark (surveying) – fix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight Institute
The Foresight Institute (Foresight) is a San Francisco-based research non-profit that promotes the development of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, such as safe AGI, biotech and longevity. Foresight runs four cross-disciplinary program tracks to research, advance, and govern maturing technologies for the long-term benefit of life and the biosphere: Molecular machines nanotechnology for building better materials, biotechnology for health extension, and computer science and crypto commerce for intelligent global cooperation. Foresight also runs a program on "existential hope", pushing forward the concept coined by Toby Ord and Owen Cotton-Barratt in their 2015 paper "Existential risk and Existential hope: Definitions", in which they wrote Foresight's stated strategy is to focus on creating a community that promotes beneficial uses of new technologies and reduce misuse and accidents potentially associated with them. Foresight runs a one-year Fellowship program ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight Linux
Foresight Linux was a Linux distribution comprising free and proprietary software with the goal of showcasing the latest in Linux desktop technologies. Foresight is developed by the Foresight community and is based on rPath, it also follows a rolling release cycle, instead of a time-based release schedule. The project announced it was shutting down at the end of May 2015. History Foresight was created by Ken VanDine as a Linux distribution to showcase the most current releases of GNOME while working on the GNOME Marketing team. Since then it has undergone change through generally minor revisions (via rolling release). This is in contrast to the system of major changes with each version number employed by many other distributions. However, there have been occasional major changes, most notably the transition from Foresight 1.x to Foresight 2. Along the way several original deficiencies have been cured as well, among them the lack of 64 bit support, which was introduced in For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foresight Magazine
''Foresight'' (フォーサイト ''fuŏ̄saito'') is one of the most influential news magazine in Japan published by Shinchosha. The magazine focusses on Japanese politics, economic issues, as well as Asian and international politics. The readers varies from business executives, academia, to politicians. History and profile ''Foresight'' was first published in 1990 and covers mainly politics. The print edition was initially only available by subscription. It started the online magazine in 2010, having stopped its print. The majority of the content is only available via subscription. Since the early days of the print media, the magazine's strength has been its unique information and analysis of international politics and economics, such as its early introduction of Al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden as a dangerous figure before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and its early warning against subprime loans, which triggered the "Lehman Brothers Shock". In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanting The Light Of Foresight
''Chanting the Light of Foresight'' (''imbas forasnai'') is a 1987 composition by Terry Riley written for and commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, though during the course of the composition it was decided that Rova would compose "The Chord of War" and "The Pipes of Medb/Medb's Blues" contains improvisation. The piece is based on the '' Taín Bó Cuailnge'' (The Cattle Raid of Cooley, translated by Thomas Kinsella), a part of the eighth-century Ulster Cycle of heroic tales. The work is partly in resonant intonation, requiring false fingerings, jaw manipulations, and straining the lips and lungs, and contains many unusual time signatures. "The Tuning Path" and "The Pipes of Medb" progresses from simple to more complex areas of tuning, statically depicting night on the battlefield. "Medb's Blues" is in the form of a 6 bar 10/4 blues where players alternately keep a cantus firmus while others improvise. "Song Announcing Dawn's Combat" depicts foster brothers and main cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corporate Foresight
Corporate foresight has been conceptualised by strategic foresight practitioners and academics working and/or studying corporations as a set of practices, a set of capabilities and an ability of a firm. It enables firms to detect discontinuous change early, interpret its consequences for the firm, and inform future courses of action to ensure the long-term survival and success of the company.Rohrbeck, Rene (2010) ''Corporate Foresight: Towards a Maturity Model for the Future Orientation of a Firm'', Springer Series: Contributions to Management Science, Heidelberg and New York, Motivation * The ''high mortality'' of companies that are faced by external change. For example, a study by Arie de Geus of Royal Dutch Shell came to the result that the life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is below 50 years, because most companies are unable to adapt their organization to changes in their environment. * The continuous ''need'' for companies ''to explore and develop new business fields' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
