Foresight most commonly refers to:
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Foresight (psychology) 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 ...
, the ability to predict or plan for the future
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Mental time travel
In psychology, mental time travel is the capacity to mentally reconstruct personal events from the past (episodic memory) as well as to imagine possible scenarios in the future (episodic foresight / episodic future thinking). The term was coine ...
or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events
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Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a ...
, a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future
Foresight or fore sight may also refer to:
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''Foresight'' (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters
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Foresight (futures studies)
In futurology, especially in Europe, the term ''foresight'' has become widely used to describe activities such as:
* critical thinking concerning long-term developments,
* debate and for some futurists who are normative and focus on action driven ...
, European planning mechanism for public policy
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''Foresight'' (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999
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Fore sight (surveying)
This is a glossary of levelling terms. Levelling is a surveying method used to find relative height, one use of which is to ensure ground is level during construction, for example, when excavating to prepare for laying a foundation for a house.
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, short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level
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Foresight Institute
The Foresight Institute (Foresight) is a San Francisco-based research non-profit that promotes the development of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, such as safe AGI, biotech and longevity.
Foresight runs four cross-disciplinary pr ...
, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology
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Foresight Linux
Foresight Linux was a Linux distribution comprising free and proprietary software with the goal of showcasing the latest in Linux desktop technologies. Foresight is developed by the Foresight community and is based on rPath, it also follows a rolli ...
, computer operating system
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Foresight magazine
''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-Japa ...
, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha
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Chanting the Light of Foresight
''Chanting the Light of Foresight'' (''imbas forasnai'') is a 1987 composition by Terry Riley written for and commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, though during the course of the composition it was decided that Rova would compose "The Chord ...
'', a saxophone composition by Terry Riley
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Corporate foresight Corporate foresight has been conceptualised by strategic foresight practitioners and academics working and/or studying corporations as a set of practices, a set of capabilities and an ability of a firm. It enables firms to detect discontinuous chang ...
, a set of practices and capabilities of a firm
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HMS ''Foresight'', various ships of the British Royal Navy
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