If futures studies aims to become someday an autonomous field of research and application, it must prove that it contributes knowledge, methods, and viewpoints different from those distinctive of other already established fields. A futurist’s toolbox requires both collecting the methods that make futurists different from other academics and practitioners (without implying that futurists must limit themselves to those methods alone) and organizing those methods according to future-based criteria, that is, according to a futures literacy typology.

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有关未来方法分类的说明

如果期货研究有朝一日要成为一个自主的研究和应用领域，则必须证明它所提供的知识，方法和观点与其他已经建立的领域不同。未来主义者的工具箱既需要收集使未来主义者有别于其他学者和实践者的方法（并不意味着未来主义者必须将自己仅限于这些方法），还需要根据基于未来的标准（即根据期货素养类型学）来组织这些方法。 。