978-1-5386-1469-3/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) Cencored version of the article: (Please refer to IEEE site for full text) Reference: Çifci, H., & Yüksel, N. (2018). Foresight 6.0: The New Generation of Technology Foresight. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) (pp. 1–5). http://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2018.8436350 Foresight 6.0: The New Generation of Technology Foresight Hasan Çifci Science and Technology Policies Studies of Middle East Technical University (METU) Ankara, Turkey hcifci74@gmail.com Nurdan Yüksel (deceased) Science and Technology Policies Studies of Middle East Technical University (METU) Ankara, Turkey nurdan.yuksel@metu.edu.tr Abstract— Futures studies have always been important for people to anticipate the future and take actions. Since technology is for society, Future oriented Technology Analyses (FTA) have been widely implemented based on different concepts through different dimensions. Foresight, one of the FTA, has evolved throughout its journey within its generations until today. In this article, foresight generations in the literature are put forth as grouped and the framework of new technology foresight generation as sixth generation (Foresight 6.0) is offered and detailed. Foresight 6.0 is evaluated on the focused dimensions, participating actors, economic bases and principles. The rising concepts of Industry 4.0, Society 5.0, netocracy, cyberspace, biotechnology, ethical values and blurriness of the roles in economy are the primary factors in this new generation of foresight. Keywords—foresight; technology foresight; foresight generations; Industry 4.0; Society 5.0; netocracy; cyberspace; biotechnology; cyborgs; artificial intelligence I. INTRODUCTION People … the future... The emerging of foresight and its evolution through time as a term is shown in the Fig. 1. Fig. 1. Timeline of Foresight as a Term 1 [6] 1 Miles [35] was used in building timeline of foresight. “Foresight is a systematic and multidisciplinary process with proper methodology combinations for identifying technological, economic and social areas to prioritize investments and research in order to determine medium or long term future strategies by using all level of resources from organizational to international [7].” Foresight uses active attitude…. II. FORESIGT GENERATIONS A. Foresight Generations in the Literature In the literature, generations of foresight have different classifications…These generations are shown in Table 1 adapted from [8] and [9] with the addition of sixth generation offered by authors. Fig. 2. Main Approaches to Foresight Generations by Yüksel and Çifci [7]