In purposeful activity, feedforward creates an expectation which the actor anticipates.
[2] Pragmatics is a subfield within linguistics which focuses on the use of context to assist meaning.
In the context of the Macy Conference, Richards remarked "Feedforward, as I see it, is the reciprocal, the necessary condition of what the cybernetics and automation people call 'feedback'.
This enabled the word to then be introduced to more specific fields such as control systems, management, neural networks, cognitive studies and behavioural science.
Feedforward is the concept of learning from the future concerning the desired behavior which the subject is encouraged to adopt.