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foresight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foresight \Fore"sight`\, n.
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
--Milton.-
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
This seems an unseasonable foresight.
--Milton.A random expense, without plan or foresight.
--Burke. (Surv.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
(Gun.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future. 2 the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon 3 (context surveying English) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
WordNet
n. providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future [syn: foresightedness, foresightfulness]
seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, prospicience]
Wikipedia
Foresight may refer to:
- Foresight (psychology), ability to predict or plan for the future, often termed "vision" in management/business context
- another name for precognition
- Fore sight (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level
- as a proper name
- Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy
- Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology
- Foresight Linux, computer operating system
- HMS Foresight (H68), a Royal Navy F class destroyer during World War II
- Foresight (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters
- Foresight (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999
- Chanting the Light of Foresight, a saxophone composition by Terry Riley
- Foresight, a normal-type Pokémon move
- Foresight magazine, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha
Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting is a forecasting journal published quarterly by the International Institute of Forecasters. Foresight was launched in 2005 as a practitioner-focused companion to the IIF's International Journal of Forecasting.
Foresight publishes peer-reviewed articles written by academics and business forecasters on topics including design and management of forecasting processes, forecasting models, integrating forecasting into business planning, sales forecasting, prediction markets, reviews of forecasting tools and books, sales and operations planning (S&OP), improving forecasting accuracy, and demand forecasting.
All Foresight back issues and articles are indexed via the IDEAS Database.
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 foresight is an important topic in psychology. Recent neuroscientific, developmental, and cognitive studies have identified many commonalities to the human ability to recall past episodes. Science magazine selected new evidence for such commonalities one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2007. However, there are fundamental differences between mentally travelling through time into the future (i.e., foresight) versus mentally travelling through time into the past (i.e., episodic memory).
Foresight: The Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy is an international bi-monthly journal published by the Emerald Publishing Group. The name connotes the term " foresight" as it is used in futures studies. The journal was established in 1999.
In futures studies, especially in Europe, the term "foresight" has become widely used to describe activities such as:
- critical thinking concerning long-term developments,
- debate and effort to create wider participatory democracy,
- shaping the future, especially by influencing public policy.
In the last decade, scenario methods, for example, have become widely used in some European countries in policy-making. The FORSOCIETY network brings together national Foresight teams from most European countries, and the European Foresight Monitoring Project is collating material on Foresight activities around the world. In addition, foresight methods are being used more and more in regional planning and decision –making (“regional foresight”).
At the same time, the use of foresight for companies (“ corporate foresight”) is becoming more professional and widespread Corporate foresight is used to support strategic management, identify new business fields and increase the innovation capacity of a firm.
Foresight is not the same as futures research or strategic planning. It encompasses a range of approaches that combine the three components mentioned above, which may be recast as:
- futures (forecasting, forward thinking, prospectives),
- planning (strategic analysis, priority setting), and
- networking (participatory, dialogic) tools and orientations.
Much futures research has been rather ivory tower work, but Foresight programmes were designed to influence policy - often R&D policy. Much technology policy had been very elitist; Foresight attempts to go beyond the "usual suspects" and gather widely distributed intelligence. These three lines of work were already common in Francophone futures studies going by the name la prospective. But in the 1990s we began to see what became an explosion of systematic organisation of these methods in large scale TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT programmes in Europe and more widely. Foresight thus draws on traditions of work in long-range planning and strategic planning, horizontal policymaking and democratic planning, and participatory futures studies - but was also highly influenced by systemic approaches to innovation studies, science and technology policy, and analysis of "critical technologies".
Many of the methods that are commonly associated with Foresight - Delphi surveys, scenario workshops, etc. - derive from the futures field. So does the fact that Foresight is concerned with:
- The longer-term - futures that are usually at least 10 years away(though there are some exceptions to this, especially in its use in private business). Since Foresight is action-oriented (the planning link) it will rarely be oriented to perspectives beyond a few decades out (though where decisions like aircraft design, power station construction or other major infrastructural decisions are concerned, then the planning horizon may well be half a century).
- Alternative futures: it is helpful to examine alternative paths of development, not just what is currently believed to be most likely or business as usual. Often Foresight will construct multiple scenarios. These may be an interim step on the way to creating what may be known as positive visions, success scenarios, aspirational futures. Sometimes alternative scenarios will be a major part of the output of Foresight work, with the decision about what future to build being left to other mechanisms.
Foresight (フォーサイト fuŏ̄saito) is a news magazine published in Japan by Shinchosha. The magazine focusses on Japanese politics and economic issues as well as Asian and international topics. It is known for representing non-Japanese expert voices.
Non-Japanese authors incude Nicholas Eberstadt, Robert Legvold, Uwe Parpart, Bruce Stokes, :de:Ingo Günther (Künstler), Ethan Scheiner, F. William Engdahl, Chris Kraul, Marcus Noland, Larry. Wortzel, and Amanda J. Crawford.
Foresight was first published in 1990 and covers mainly politics. The print edition was initially only available by subscription. At a later point some selected bookstores in major Japanese cities would also carry it. Print publication stopped in 2010. Since then it has been a web magazine. It is updated daily except of major holidays. The majority of the content is only available via subscription. The monthly price is currently 800 yen.
Foresight also publishes e-books.
The magazine routinely informs about free as well as subscription-only articles via their Twitter feed.
Usage examples of "foresight".
She had had the foresight to bring with her an adaptor plug for her hair dryer and later she blamed the noise the dryer was making for masking the sound of anyone knocking on her door.
Happily, the sainted Bishop Ambrose had the foresight to weight that synod with other Athanasian bishops.
That bitch of a Beata would have succeeded, too, had I not had the foresight and the courage to bide my time and watch for my opportunity.
Perhaps the difference was not so much an additional 200 cubic centimeters as some specific developments in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes which provided us with analytical ability, foresight and anxiety.
The most celebrated companies of the old and the new world play there amid an enthusiasm that is steadily maintained by the foresight of the managers: Russian and foreign dancers, and above all the French chanteuses, the little dolls of the cafes-concerts, so long as they are young, bright, and elegantly dressed, may meet their fortune there.
And from the moment that the Senate had been unofficially apprised by Nani that the terrible Interdict was already printed and would presently be fulminated, every possible precaution of self-defense had been put in operation throughout the dominions of Venice, with an ingenuity, a foresight, and a celerity which the watching courts of Europe not only viewed with amazement, but accepted as an evidence of the conscious power and justice of the Republic.
Many details were known, not only to the two dukes who were about to patch up the ministry between them, but to the political world at large,--and where facts upon which the newspapers were able to display their wonderful foresight and general omniscience, with their usual confidence.
I am rejoiced that my foresight should have begun in time, since it enables me to meet the necessity promptly, and to interpose myself at the moment when you most need counsel and assistance.
All that evening nothing was spoken of but the foresight of Danglars, who had sold his shares, and of the luck of the stock-jobber, who only lost five hundred thousand francs by such a blow.
Happy are those men who, to enjoy life to the fullest extent, require neither hope nor foresight.
I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.
At Belfast they would have performed the same feat had it not been for the foresight of General Smith-Dorrien, who had the heavy gun trundled back into the town every night.
When word carried to Tower Black that the smith Nylan forged mighty blades again, and that those of Lornth warred with ancient Cyador, the black stones shivered with the foresight of the Angel.
He gave an order, too, that an amount of public grain equal to one year's tribute should be given to all the harlots, procurers, and catamites who were within the walls, and promised an equal amount to those without, for, thanks to the foresight of Severus and Trajan, there was in Rome at that time a store of grain equal to seven years' tribute.
I felt inclined to laugh, but none the less I admired the foresight of my Spaniard, for a man in despair is capable of anything.