Futuribles International (formerly Association Internationale Futuribles) is a Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

-based international, independent, private non-profit organization network on future studies. It was created in 1960 by Bertrand de Jouvenel

Bertrand de Jouvenel

Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.-Life:...

 while the "Centre d’études prospectives" was created by Gaston Berger

Gaston Berger

Gaston Berger was a French futurist but also an industrialist, a philosopher and a state manager. He is mainly known for his remarkably lucid analysis of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology and for his studies on the character structure.Berger was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal...

 in 1957.

The organization main focus is on the impact of new technologies

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, social policies

Social policy

Social policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare. Thus, social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues...

, lifestyle changes, strategic foresight

Strategic foresight

Strategic foresight is a fairly recent attempt to differentiate "futurology" from "futures studies". It arises from the premise that:*The future is not predictable;*The future is not predetermined; and...

, and the emergence of an information society

Information society

The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally through using IT in a creative and productive way. An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic,...

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See also

• List of future studies topics
• World Future Society
  World Future Society
  The World Future Society is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Bethesda, Maryland, US, founded in 1966.The Society investigates how social, economic and technological developments are shaping the future...
  
  
• World Futures Studies Federation
  World Futures Studies Federation
  The World Futures Studies Federation is a global non-governmental organization that was founded in 1973 to promote the development of futures studies as an academic discipline.- History :...
  
  
• Science and technology studies
  Science and technology studies
  Science, technology and society is the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture...
  
  

External links

• Official website and