Futurism - the trendiest profession. (2000: The Millennium Notebook)

Newsweek | March 2, 1998| | Copyright

Back in 1987, Timothy Willard, then managing editor of The Futurist magazine, predicted that America's obsession with trend watching and futurism would explode as the millennium approached. Sure enough, the boom in futurism is on. Everywhere you look these days, from books to seminars to magazine stories, someone's trying to peddle his version of tomorrow. "At the end of the last century it was Victorian psychics with turbans and crystal balls talking to angels," says Paul Saffo, a forecaster himself and a director of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. Now ...

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