Since the global financial crisis, there has been a renewed interest in the UK and other countries in the use of foresight processes to help identify technologies and sectors with long-term growth potential.
He had the foresight and the energy to help us realize grand projects, and we will miss him dearly.
The first, "Deep Visual Foresight for Planning Robot Motion," is designed to help robots collect their own data without direct human supervision.
Two years ago, he sent 60 city workers for Federal Emergency Management Agency training, a stroke of foresight he said has done more to help Tuscaloosa handle the disaster than anything else.
I was recently contacted by a supervisor of paramedics, who read my book Flash Foresight and is now using this principle to help people in a new and powerful way.
As she recalls, ever since her brother received the gift of foresight, he has been wanting to use it to help his country.
Before their marriage and his full-time entry into politics, Rosebery's future wife had written with extraordinary foresight and ambition to him: "I work only to help you, if you are Prime Minister, let me imitate Montagu Corry".
In 1997, the then-sociology professor had the foresight to launch a business that would go on to help many men and women through the recent economic downturn.
To help overcome these challenges we look at the contributions of foresight from multiple perspectives in a systemic way and propose the concept of multi-layered foresight, which analyses the contributions of foresight to knowledge, relations and capabilities on four layers: landscape, system, organisation and individual.
The work of the UK government's Foresight team is full of helpful reports and useful tools to encourage 'horizon scanning', and the National School of Government offers training to help people to anticipate and prepare for the unexpected.
