Nonetheless, visioneers and their supporters are not immune to the lures of profit, celebrity, and sensationalism.

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Visioneers can play an increasingly important role in building the technological ecosystems of tomorrow.

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Many visioneers champion free markets, less government, fewer regulations and profits for those who test the technological envelope.

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For visioneers, the past is merely a prototype, a provisional plan for what may become a magnificent and perhaps less limited future.

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Visioneers base their imaginings on detailed engineering studies and technical designs.

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Visioneers and the communities of researchers, futurists, and entrepreneurs they attracted have often existed at the blurry border between scientific fact, technological possibility, and optimistic speculation.

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The U.S. government as well as private groups like the X Prize Foundation can play an important role in stimulating and helping budding visioneers through prizes, funding or other forms of support.

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By combining broad views of the future with technical skills, experience, and research, visioneers take speculative ideas out of the hands of sci-fi writers and technological forecasters and put them on firmer ground.

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