World Future Society | 7,189 followers on LinkedIn. Spreading the futurist mindset worldwide for 50+ years, with members in 80+ countries. Based in Chicago, LA & London. | Founded in 1966, the World Future Society is recognized as the largest, most influential, and longest-running community of futurists and future thinkers in the world. WFS members originally established the foundations of future thinking as we understand it today—through publications, global summits, and advisory roles to world leaders in business and government. Historical members and authors have included legendary minds such as Buckminster Fuller, Gene Roddenberry, and Margaret Mead.