ASI proposes a research methodology for the purpose of maximizing the search for and the extraction of new concepts and innovations in the area of extending the capabilities of the human in aeronautical/ space systems through designing, conducting, running, and monitoring of a futurists/research workshop. The proposed methodology includes: 1) the use of ASI designed or refined futurist tools and methods to stimulate thinking about future possibilities and to extract new information relative to future possibilities; 2) invite participants encompassing professional futurists, science fiction writers, industrial managers/scientists/engineers, and air force experts; 3) a free-wheeling structured workshop format organized to maximize the generation, extraction, and exchange of new ideas, and 4) to focus on "extended man" futures -for example, to consider the human as a "black box" in a weapon system extended and enhanced via AI enhanced, bio-body armor systems, "virtual cockpit" environments, biomux systems, bio-genetic engineering, new monoclonal antibody immunized/conditioned/protected systems, ethnotronic systems, ethnobiogenetic systems, and bio-molecular "computer" systems. At the conclusion of the workshop, ASI proposes to produce a report which includes the ideas generated and an analysis of the findings.
