Futures Discovery (FD) was founded in 2006 by Alireza Hejazi, a freelance futurist to assist individuals and organizations in understanding what the future may hold in store and enable them to make better strategic decisions today about their preferred tomorrow. Over the past four years, FD has gained recognition as an authoritative source of knowledge about trends and developments in the futurist community.

Everyone is interested in what the future of mankind will be like. Through the choices each of us makes, we determine whether tomorrow's world will be a better place for humans to live. The purpose of futures studies is to investigate the various kinds of futures that are possible. By utilizing the results of futures research to make well-informed choices, humans can exert a positive influence on their own destiny.

Achieving the horizons of futures studies, Futures Discovery tries to put the foundations of futures studies in Persian speaking societies. Building great and inspiring visions is the main objective of this scientific-research website. These visions are in fact the subjective images of the future. Futures Discovery was established in 2006 for Futures Studies. 

Futures Discovery aims to influence the long-term development of growing societies by advancing futures research and its utilization in such countries. Our efforts in promoting futures studies focus on the following objectives:

• to develop the material, organizational, and intellectual bases for futures research;
• to advance higher education grounded on futures research;
• to foster contacts among futures researchers as well as between the researchers and those who could utilize their work;
• to maintain contacts with research institutes and researchers;
• to communicate the latest results of futures research to the Iranian public and to emphasize the necessity of such research.

Activities

Since its establishment FD has, as the only body of its kind in Iran, played a unifying role among the researchers connected to the field. It has coordinated futures-related research across a broad range of academic disciplines. The traditional activities of FD have included attending regular series of meetings and seminars during the academic year. FD has encouraged researchers' participation in conferences and other international activities in the field. Futures Discovery has also been keenly interested in the activities of the futurist think tanks.

Publications

All members receive the academy's Persian newsletter, 12 times per year. The newsletter contains feature articles, research reports, and seminar announcements and functions as a forum for the exchange of information and opinion. Other publications may be reviewed at publications section.

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