As a practical tool and research discipline, it is a methodological form of obtaining information about the future. The aim is to define directions and development patterns to support current decisions in the long term. It is a kind of anticipation of needs and threats related to technological development for anticipatory actions in the economy, science and technology. Why is foresight important? An example is the reconstruction of the Japanese economy to a power class, based after World War II on the discipline and methodology of foresight...