The man who was a founder of future studies in the United States is journalist Edward Cornish. He does not have a Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n
Edward Cornish (1927- ) is the founder and first President<\/a> of the World Future Society. He is also a published futurist writer and the founding editor of The Futurist magazine (1966-2010). <\/p>\n Cornish was born in 1927 in New York City. His father George A. Cornish (1902-May 14, 1989) was the managing editor and executive editor<\/a> of The New York Herald Tribune. Cornish graduated from Harvard.<\/p>\n Cornish began his writing career<\/a> at the Evening Star in Washington as a copy boy and then eventually was promoted to a cub reporter. He later became a United Press correspondent. Cornish worked at United Press for six years in five different cities including London, Paris, and Rome. He then went on to work as a writer for the National Geographic Society in Washington before creating The Futurist magazine and the WFS.<\/p>\n Cornish has said that the 1939 New York World’s Fair and especially the General Motors “Futurama” exhibit was a strong influence. He also has written that the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) were part of what prompted him to become a futurist <\/a>writer. Cornish wrote<\/a> \u201cthe study of the future might help the cause of world peace” in the first issue of The Futurist in 1966. Cornish is the author of many essays and journals as well as his only published book Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. (WFS. 2004. 313 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-930242-61-0.) It\u2019s described by the WFS<\/a> as a comprehensive guide to the study of the future. <\/p>\n Cornish is now retired living with his son Jeff Cornish in Rockville, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The man who was a founder of future studies in the United States is journalist Edward Cornish. He does not have a Wikipedia page. Edward Cornish (1927- ) is the founder and first President of the World Future Society. He is also a published futurist writer and the founding editor of The Futurist magazine (1966-2010). … <\/p>\n
\nThe popularity of The Futurist prompted Cornish to create the World Future Society in 1966.<\/p>\n