Foresight
Encyclopedia
Foresight or forethought may refer to:
- Foresight (psychology)Foresight (psychology)Foresight is the ability to predict, or the action of predicting, what will happen or what is needed in the future.Studies suggest that much of human daily thought is directed towards potential future events. Because of this and its role in human control on the planet, the nature and evolution of...
, ability to predict or plan for the future - Foresight (management)Foresight (management)In management, a review, analysis, and synthesis of past definitions and usages of the foresight concept into a generic definition, in order to make the concept measurable has classified foresight as a behaviour ....
, management planning principle - Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy
- Foresight InstituteForesight InstituteThe Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies. They sponsor conferences on molecular nanotechnology, publish reports, and produce a newsletter....
, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology - Foresight LinuxForesight Linux- External links :* *...
, computer operating system - Chanting the Light of ForesightChanting the Light of ForesightChanting the Light of Foresight is a 1987 composition by Terry Riley written for and commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, though during the course of the composition it was decided that Rova would compose "The Chord of War" and "The Pipes of Medb/Medb's Blues" contains improvisation.The...
, a 1987 saxophone composition by Terry Riley - HMS Foresight (H68)HMS Foresight (H68)HMS Foresight was a Royal Navy F class destroyer. She operated as a fast minesweeper during World War II and was scuttled after being damaged in an aerial attack during Operation Pedestal, an attempt to bring supplies to Malta....
, a Royal Navy F class destroyer during World War II - Foresight: The International Journal of Applied ForecastingForesight: The International Journal of Applied ForecastingForesight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting is a forecasting journal published quarterly by the International Institute of Forecasters...
, a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters. - Forethought (company)Forethought (company)Forethought, Inc. was a computer software company, best known as developers of what is now Microsoft PowerPoint.-History:In late 1983, Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman founded Forethought, Inc in order to develop object oriented bit-mapped application software. In 1984, they hired Bob Gaskins, a...
, software company which developed Microsoft PowerPoint
See also
- Forecast (disambiguation)
- PlanningPlanningPlanning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
- Premonition
- PrecognitionPrecognitionIn parapsychology, precognition , also called future sight, and second sight, is a type of extrasensory perception that would involve the acquisition or effect of future information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information or laws of physics...
- DivinationDivinationDivination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual...