Futurism, representing the fields of futurology and foresight strategy, is argued to be increasingly irrelevant, with many organizations like the Association of Professional Futurists showing signs of decline. Membership cancellations indicate a lack of value in the community. The World Future Society, once a foundational organization for the profession, is now mostly forgotten, its legacy reduced to a ghost online represented by failed web domains. The tools and methods that were once influential in shaping foresight practices are now part of a questionable history, overshadowed by disarray in the community.
The ultimate irony is that the true World Future Society now exists only in the Wayback Machine, consigned to a hidden history that, in a few years, nobody will remember to look up, let alone.
I took a stroll through the Association of Professional Futurists website and community, knowing from others' feedback what I'd find: a lost organisation filled with protectionism, an unwilling community, and a lot of cancelled memberships that no longer find value in paying to just wear the AFP badge.
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