Studies suggest that much of human thought is directed towards potential future events.
[2] Neuroscientific, developmental, and cognitive studies have identified many similarities to the human ability to recall past episodes.
[3] Science magazine selected evidence for such similarities as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2007.
Review, analysis, and synthesis of past definitions and usages of the foresight concept attempted to establish a generic definition, in order to make the concept measurable.
This information-revealing mechanism is credited to economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.