{"id":24132,"date":"2016-03-30T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-know"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:16","slug":"20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-know","title":{"rendered":"20 Crucial Terms Every 21st-Century Futurist Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilisation as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you\u2019ll need to navigate our future.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007 I put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2007\/01\/must-know-terms-for-21st-century_11.html\" target=\"_blank\">a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with<\/a>. But now, some seven years later, it\u2019s time for an update. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions \u2014 some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions, including a few of my own.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>1. Co-veillance<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" src=\"\" alt=\"20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know\" width=\"800\" height=\"286\" data-chomp-id=\"ylcuqabaqs4nk4hoivrx\" data-asset-url=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s\u20140zKNVOM_\u2014\/c_scale, fl_progressive, q_80,w_800\/ylcuqabaqs4nk4hoivrx.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.co.uk\/2016\/03\/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-know\/\">http:\/\/www.gizmodo.co.uk\/2016\/03\/20-crucial-terms-every-21st...ould-know\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilisation as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you\u2019ll need to navigate our future. Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67863,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions\/67863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}