PERSPECTIVES Futurism and Scientific Networking

Editors,Mr. Blake Godkinmade the following com-ment: “In a time of accelerating change—when the future of any nation will be based on how well it creates and manages new ideas—we can no longer make current decisions primar-ily on the basis of experience. This is why it is imperative to become comfortable with the process of thinking like a futur-ist.”1 Mr. Godkin, I might add, works for the SHW Group, a Texas-based firm of architects that designed the Dubai exten-sion of the University ofMichigan and parts of the Texas Tech University campus; they specialize in designing education-related buildings. Architecture has historically been involved with futurism, as has literature. The prediction of the future also plays a critical role in medicine and in scientific publishing. The term futurism broadly means to speculate about the future. Initially referring to a religious movement, futuris