30Jun

Zhouying JIN, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Theodore Gordon (1930-2014) began conducting future research in the 1960s. His future research work went from providing advice to the Rand Corporation to helping create the Future Research Institute, and then founded the Future Group (the first for-profit futurist think tank). He was one of the founders of the Future Research Institute (IFTF) in Silicon […]
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30Jun

Nadezhda Gaponenko

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It’s a heavy loss, I still can’t come to my senses, even though I prepared myself for this moment. It’s clear that this is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I met Ted at the first MP meeting in Washington in 1996. Jerry detailed Ted’s professional accomplishments, but went unnoticed that Ted was […]
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30Jun

Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD

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The loss of Ted has been a tragedy for all of us futurists, and particularly in The Millennium Project family, which he cofounded with Jerry. Ted was a pioneer in futures research and an inventor of many futures methodologies, in fact, Ted developed more foresight techniques than anyone else in history, and that is a […]
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30Jun

Ivan Klinec, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Ted Gordon was undoubtedly one of the world’s great and leading futurist and he greatly contributed to the development of the methodology of futures studies, futures research, to the organizational innovation of worldwide futurist activities, to the development of futurist thinking and to the solving of problems of the future. I had the opportunity to […]
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30Jun

Concepción Olavarrieta, Mexico City, February 6, 2024

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In 2004, at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting in Sao Paolo, Brazil, I had the privilege of meeting Ted Gordon. His foresight wisdom and clarity in sharing it, impressed me greatly as he described the methodology and benefits of the Delphi Round to us. Method that years later he would improve by calling it […]
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30Jun

Mike Jackson, Shaping tomorrow

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Just heard the sad news, Jerry. I remember meeting Ted on your invitation to dinner at WFS nearly twenty years ago. A true gentleman and a founding father of foresight. I remember he was ranked fifth for his contributions to foresight among his most eminent peer group in a poll at Shaping Tomorrow around 2012. […]
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