You can't pretend to be a futurist, even so the term is so fashionable these days, if you do not master some key concepts to think the future(s), such as the following.
Wide world perception. It refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs forming a global description through which an individual, group or culture watches and interprets the world and interacts with it as a social reality. From Wikipedia.
Hiebert, Paul G. (2008). Transforming Worldviews: an anthropological understanding of how people change. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8010-2705-5.
La distance psychologique (temporelle, spatiale ou sociale) affecte la manière nous pensons à un événement, une personne ou une idée, mais aussi dont nous anticipons et mettons en oeuvre le futur: c'est la théorie des niveaux de représentations, essentielle pour comprendre comment nous percevons et préparons le futur. Cf. Wikipedia EN.