20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know   Back
in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting
futurist should be familiar with. But now, some seven years
later, it's 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 —
some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a
refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions,
including a few of my own.  1. Co-veillance  20 Crucial Terms
Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know  Futurist and scifi
novelist David Brin suggested this one. It's kind of a mash-up
between Steve Mann's sousveillance and Jamais Cascio's
Participatory Panopticon, and a furtherance of his own
Transparent Society concept. Brin describes it as: "reciprocal
vision and supervision, combining surveillance with aggressively
effective sousveillance." He says it's "scrutiny f