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Vinony

futurology

noun

  1. the study or forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From future + -ology. Attested once in 1934 as the title of play, Futureology; in later use, after German Futurologie, suggested in a 1942 letter to the American scholar John H. Herz by the German political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim, who used futurology in a 1943 Phylon article.

  1. The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society