what role futurists?

When the movie Minority Report was being made, ideas were solicited from futurists on what the world would be like fifty years from now. In Russia, futurists are working to try to give the Russian Federation, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) an idea of what the Volga River will be like thirty years from now. The results of the study will likely be shared with people from other geographical regions that have major waterways running through them (such as the Delaware or the Mississippi rivers).