Reading - Futurology
Where would you go if you wanted to know your future?
The answer is probably to a fortune-teller,
But is it really possible for a fortune-teller to accurately predict your future?
Probably not .
But in recent years more and more professionals have begun to look into the future.
They've decided that being able to know what will happen years
from now is a lot more important then we thought it was.
Someone whose job it is to tell the future is a futurist
Unlike fortune-tellers, futurists do not predict that a certain event will take place at a particular time.
instead they look at what is happening now to see where this may lead in the future,
for instance between five and fifty years from now .
Two important areas they are interested in are the worlds of science and technology .
Sometimes technological companies ask for futurists' opinions
before making important decisions about a few product.
For instance, what should a mobile phone look like or be able to do five years from now
or what kind of computer game will teenagers want to play in ten years time ?
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