Theodore Gordon (1930-2014) began conducting future research in the 1960s. His future research work went from providing advice to the Rand Corporation to helping create the Future Research Institute, and then founded the Future Group (the first for-profit futurist think tank). He was one of the founders of the Future Research Institute (IFTF) in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and also a co-founder of the Millennium Project (MP). He was once a consultant for RAND Corporation and one of the pioneers of the widely used "Delphi method" in future research. His research covers future research, space research (manager of the Apollo III rocket, director of biopharmaceuticals), scientific and technological development, and globalization issues. He has six works, including "The Future" (1965), "Thoughts in Conflict" (1966), and "Forward" (1972). He is also the inventor of 10 future research techniques (Delphi, Cross Impact Analysis, Trend Impact Analysis, Technology Sequence Analysis, Interactive Scene Software, Decision Modeling, Substitution Analysis, Future Index, What/If Database, Future Headlines News, and Real Time Delphi) and has won the "Shaping Tomorrow Lifetime Achievement Award" And the World Future Association's Ed Cornish Futurist of the Year Award. Ted Gordon's contribution to future research methods exceeds any other method in history.

Aprovecho el medio para saludarle y a la vez comentarte que Guillermo nos comentó que estás acopiando mensajes por la partida del Dr. Ted Gordon. Así, de nuestra parte: "Lamentamos mucho la pérdida de una excelente persona y excelente prospectivista Dr. Ted Gordon. Le recordaremos con mucho cariño, su ausencia se hará notar, pero la felicidad y el aprendizaje que ha dejado detrás de sí, nunca desaparecerá del todo. Pedimos fortaleza para sus seres más cercanos en este tiempo tan desafiante. Atte: Nodo de Costa Rica - Millennium Project - RIBER.

It’s a heavy loss, I still can't come to my senses, even though I prepared myself for this moment. It’s clear that this is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I met Ted at the first MP meeting in Washington in 1996. Jerry detailed Ted's professional accomplishments, but went unnoticed that Ted was one of the first who started to shift future studies to a complexity paradigm. Here he and I found each other, and our joint work at that time became the proposal of the collaborative project of the MP and the Santa Fe Institute at the NSF USA about the implementation of chaos and complexity theory in future studies. In fact, Ted made two revolutions in the study of the future:  more than a half a century ago he put it on a new track, based on the knowledge of experts, and when he was already over sixty, that is, he was at the age when normal people sit with a fishing rod on the shore of a lake, he stood up at the origins of this great transition to the complexity paradigm. I called Ted the Golden Brains of Futures Studies. Inventing and creating something was the same need for him as having breakfast in the morning and going to bed in the evening. It should be admitted that in many ways the success of the MP was based on Ted’s innovation. No doubt his works will long outlive him. Ted as a special individual surprised and fascinated even more than. I think many people know that at the beginning of the century, Ted and his son were simultaneously diagnosed with cancer. The doctors gave them three months. Ted said: I don't believe it! He sold a house in Florida and an airplane; three doctors lived with them for a year and they both won. Fantastic victory! He demonstrated that the impossible is possible! But this was not enough for him to get a final and irrevocable victory. In 2006, in Spain at the EC conference, he told me: my son and I built an airplane. That’s the big deal he put in this matter and that’s the lesson he taught us all!! I can't help but remember Anna. I was always touched by the way Ted looked at Anna, how terribly he was worried before each of his presentations, and Anna was very worried about him. I was in the evening in memory of Anna and was shocked. At 90 years old, Ted told with such youthful fire how he recaptured Anna from her fiancé; his eyes burned, his voice boomed. Thinking about it: he carried this feeling throughout his life. Another lesson for everyone! We are lucky, we had many lessons on how to live, how to love, how to be friends. Of course, we will remember him, our children will remember him, and we'll tell our grandchildren what values the best sons of humanity built their lives on. I thank fate that Ted was in my life. But today it is very difficult to accept this new reality that Ted is gone. I tried several times to write a letter of condolences to family, friends and the Millennium Project, but I couldn’t squeeze out a single line. Take heart

The loss of Ted has been a tragedy for all of us futurists, and particularly in The Millennium Project family, which he cofounded with Jerry. Ted was a pioneer in futures research and an inventor of many futures methodologies, in fact, Ted developed more foresight techniques than anyone else in history, and that is a major claim for future generations! He was also a mentor and a friend. Even though his reputation preceded him, I first met him in person during 2000 at the World Future Society annual conference, and he impressed me so much, that I told him and Jerry that I wanted to help and create the Venezuela Node of The Millennium Project. That was the beginning of a very fruitful relationship throughout the years. From the beginning, I was very enthusiastic about his work about the Delphi method and the RT Delphi and contributed in all his studies since he started with this methodology then. I also loved the State of the Future Index (SOFI) methodology and coordinated with him the SOFI for Latin American countries during several years. I was also very happy to collaborate with him on some projects using Cross Impact Analysis and Trend Impact Analysis, and thrilled to help writing some scenarios and Delphi surveys. We also worked together in the "2030 Latin America: Delphi and Scenarios" study that eventually became a very successful book that we promoted all over Latin America, and I even had the possibility to present in sessions about Latin America with the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland, and Lima, Peru). This was the start of more initiatives about Latin America and Spain, including the creation of the Ibero-American Foresight Network RIBER (Red IBERoamericana de Prospectiva), where he was one of our major supporters. Ted also came to Venezuela for our futurist annual conference of the World Future Society Venezuela, even if Caracas was in turmoil during his trip. In fact, we could not find a hotel for him, and I offered instead to stay in my parents’ home in Caracas, and he gladly agreed, while we kept on trying to find a hotel for him during two days. He also invited me to stay in his homes in Florida and in Connecticut, and teased me about flying planes, but I sadly could not manage to make those visits. Besides a great futurist, Ted was also a great family man, with a beautiful wife and a wonderful family. His wife Annie was always happy and full of life, I loved talking to her, until unfortunately she passed away recently. This was of course a tragedy for him, but Ted kept working until the last minute, including the current AGI study with The Millennium Project. In 2022, I told him that we had to collaborate in the Future of Life Institute competition about AGI in 2045, he gracefully agreed and probably worked more than me in our proposal, which ended up being one of the winners for The Millennium Project as a whole, and it represents a memorial to his genius, so I am really excited to review it in the year 2045, and everyone should see it with his ideas, visions and scenarios. The week when Ted died, I was going to write to him trying to convince him about cryonics, just in case, since we had already talked about human cryopreservation before, and I also had mentioned it to Jerry. Very sadly, he died while I was traveling in Central America, and I never had the chance to tell him once more how much I admired him and how much I owed him in my own life. A great human being is gone, and we have to stop this tragedy of aging and death. My personal goal now is to accelerate the advances towards indefinite life extension and, as Plan B, cryonics should be considered by everyone. We are living in an incredible time thanks to science and technology, as Ted believed too. My view is that we are between the last human mortal generation and the first immortal generation, and we should not lose more wonderful people like Ted. Fortunately, we might be able to recreate most of Ted by the year 2045, thanks to all his great legacy and public accomplishments that have shaped history and molded the future. So, this is to you dear Ted: see you back here in 2045... Futuristically yours, La vie est belle!

Ted Gordon was undoubtedly one of the world's great and leading futurist and he greatly contributed to the development of the methodology of futures studies, futures research, to the organizational innovation of worldwide futurist activities, to the development of futurist thinking and to the solving of problems of the future. I had the opportunity to meet Ted for the first time in the year 1998 at the meeting of the Planning Committee of The Millennium Project of American Council for United Nations University in Chicago, USA and at the annual conference of the World Future Society also in Chicago, which the meeting of the planning committee preceded. Then I had the opportunity to meet with Ted another 14 times at meetings of the Planning Committee of The Millennium Project and at World Future Society annual conferences in Washington, D.C., Houston, Minneapolis and San Francisco. Ted radiated great satisfaction and great wisdom, visionary and innovation in his presentations, speeches and discussions. He was a great innovator and his very important innovation was the creation of the State of the Future Index SOFI and I had the opportunity to participate in the calculation of V4 SOFI for the Visegrad countries including Slovakia. Ted provided here the methodological background for the project and was a co-author of the resulting publication together with its other authors from the V4 countries. To me personally, Ted Gordon and Jerry Glenn are synonymous with The Millennium Project, as they have led and managed it since its starting point in 1996 (1992), managed it tirelessly, and have been instrumental in publishing the State of the Future since the project's beginning in 1996. No other similar activity did not contribute so much to the global development of futures studies and futures research as the activities of The Millennium Project. Ted and Jerry have united a huge number of futurists from all over the world into one global neuron network, which continuously thinks about the future, searches for solutions to the problems of the future and pushes the boundaries of global futures knowledge worldwide. For that, Ted deserves the thanks and respect of futurists around the world in honor to his memory.

I met Ted Gordon in July 2015 at the Millennium Project meeting in San Francisco, which preceded the World Future Society conference. This was my first year with the Millennium Project after meeting Jerry Glenn in Orlando in 2014. At the conference itself, he spoke extensively, captivatingly, with incredible erudition and the transmission of interdisciplinary ideas about "Black Swans". Immediately, the possibility of collaboration occurred to me, connecting the identification of "Black Swans" as a phenomenon with the methodology I had developed for forecasting - counterfactual analysis and counterfacts. Ted believed in me unequivocally. In 2017, we co-authored our article in the World Future Review: "Report on a Study of Counterfacts as a Future Research Technique for Forecasting for Future Developments." And in 2019, Palgrave MacMillan, Springer published our book "Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis. Seeds of the Future." Ted was a world authority who had the courage to share his giant intellectual achievements with me at the beginning of my academic journey. His legacy is both inspiring and a responsibility. I hope it remains forever in the Pantheon of the world and American intellectual futurists.

In 2004, at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting in Sao Paolo, Brazil, I had the privilege of meeting Ted Gordon. His foresight wisdom and clarity in sharing it, impressed me greatly as he described the methodology and benefits of the Delphi Round to us. Method that years later he would improve by calling it Real Time Delphi. From that year until 2014, we had a close relationship for almost 10 years, since together with Jerome Glenn, we researched, selected and reviewed the content for the development of the first world encyclopedic dictionary on foresight, which we called FUTURES, that has more than 1000 words and methodologies. In 2020, I had the privilege of having once again the support of both, Jerome Glenn and him, for the review, selection and addition of 200 new words and methods for updating it. In January 2024, Millennium Project launched It as FUTURES 2.0. In 2010, we were co-authors of the Scenario “A SECRET REPORT” that RIBER published in LATINOAMÉRICA 2030. Personally, I had the privilege of seeing and listening to him for 20 years at all MPPC in-person and Zoom meetings around the world. His nobility, generosity and brotherhood of solidarity in sharing his knowledge and life experiences with me, are an invaluable treasure that I will always keep in my heart. In 2017, he distinguished me with his presence at the MP gala dinner at my house. I greatly appreciate his great affection.

Just heard the sad news, Jerry. I remember meeting Ted on your invitation to dinner at WFS nearly twenty years ago. A true gentleman and a founding father of foresight. I remember he was ranked fifth for his contributions to foresight among his most eminent peer group in a poll at Shaping Tomorrow around 2012. We stayed in touch over the years and helped each other on numerous occasions. He was last in touch with me a few months ago, still as active as ever. I’m really sad to hear of his passing, particularly as a challenge he set me a decade ago on Trend Impact Analysis has just been cracked. I was about to write to him to share that with him. My condolences to his family and to you on the loss of your dear compadre. He lives on in our minds and hearts and the tremendous foresight work he leaves behind. Best wishes

Joining you in mourning Ted’s passing… and celebrating his rich life.

Theodore “Ted” J. Gordon. Read the obituary.

Remembering Ted Gordon, 1930-2024. Read the whole tribute.

Came out of the Earth, a star that’s in the sky, Ted Gordon.

Dear Ted, Now you have preceded us to the absolute knowledge of truth and reality. Yesterday, you were concerned about the future in this world, and now you see what lies beyond the future. Our appointment with you will soon be in the highest paradise with the Truth, the Just, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful, our Lord.

I am very very sad to learn of Ted’s passing. Over the 12 years I represented the Foresight Canada Node, he was always an incredibly kind and understanding ‘mentor’, and probably the main reaso

What a beautiful tribute Jerry and what sad news. I fondly remember Ted and the insights he shared during my fellowship with the Millennium Project. Our world was blessed to have him. With condolences.

Ted Gordon in memoriam 1931-2024. Read in Polish

Ted not just built the future but allowed us to live in it. Even more, his techniques and methodologies will help many others, after us, continue with the construction of futures and the consequent strategic planning. His simple presence and his gentle way of talking, his warm smile are stored in my memory. It was easy to approach him and become contagious with his vivace enthusiasm for life. I’m sorry that I’ve met him so rarely, but without a doubt, they left a huge impact on me. They are people and academics like him and yourselves, who with generosity, creativity and constant work will make this world a better world. I send you a big hug.

For me a truly inspiring figure that I hope will be memorialized in the form of a prize in his name in the field of applied foresight methods.

Respect. May his memory be eternal.

So sad, and such a loss to the world. I remember meeting him and learning with awe that the gentle, humble, smiling man sitting next to me is the Ted Gordon. His memory – and his ideas – will stay with all of us far into the future. Deep condolences to his family, and to all who have known him far better than I did.

May Ted Rest In Peace, and condolences to his family and many friends and colleagues. It was a great honour to have known him. Condolences particularly to you Jerry; I know he was a friend and not just a partner to you.

In this moment of Ted passing away. I express my deep sorrow and offer my sincere condolences to all of you who had the chance to meet or know him, in particular to his family, Jerry, and Elizabeth. We Persians/Iranians are poetry people. For every occasion we have some poems. I thought a couple of lines from late Mis Jaleh Isfahani a contemporary poet is in order: Life is the sole scene of our artistic performance, Every body sings his/her own song and leaves the scene, The scene exists for ever, Hail to that song that people save for remembrance. The great Ted will remain in our memories and that of all, futurists for times to come. God bless him. May he rest in calmness with happy sole.

For those who contributed so much to others, the Latin proverb always remains actual: NON OMNIS MORIAR. My sincere condolences to Ted’s family and to the entire Millennium Project Team.

Besides the Delphi and other methodologies, his participation in RAND and of course in the MP was unforgettable, he was a prospectivist with ethics of the future, morals of the present and transcended from always towards the welfare of his own, these as legacies and image are an example for all. Peace on his way and a hug for all.

A sad moment for many of us. Wonderful memories. And hope for the future.

He will be missed and contributed so very much to futures work for decades. I remember meeting him at WFS meetings years past and his presentations at recent World Future Day 2023 was outstanding. Rest in peace.

Sad to hear about Ted Gordon. Grace and comfort to his family and close friends. I am beneficiary of his futures contributions.

Very sad time and my sincere condolences to Ted’s family. Certainly, a visionary futurist and leader who made a giant contribution.

His legacy lives within us all. Blessings for his family at this time. Abrazo,Jan HurwitchFundación Ética Visionaria (FEV)

RIP Ted. Jerry I remember you introducing me to Ted when I was visiting some years back. Glad to have met him – most warm and impressive.

I am so sorry to hear that. I remember when I interviewed Ted for my doctoral thesis, it was a real honor for me and I will never forget it.

Not long after I started working at Swinburne back in 2000, I of course ransacked all the early issues of Futures (hi Ted!) I could get my hands onto in order to get my head into the space of Futures Studies. Luckily, Swinburne had quite a stash. One of the pieces I found — and which strongly influenced my later direction as a researcher — was the article: Gordon, Theodore J. 1971. ‘Future of Futurists’. Futures 3(4):322–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(71)90051-6. In particular, I quote from the second-last paragraph: “The field also needs … theoreticians who are to the methodologists as ‘basic’ scientists are to their ‘applied’ colleagues, searching for the paradigms of the future”. So, yes, a prize commemorating TG’s contributions to the field as an applied futurist, but also a twin prize enacting his view that we also need theoreticians, which was the primary identity I chose to follow, per his observation.

Sorry to hear. Very sad news. In addition to futures studies, he worked in various other fields. One example, aerospace. From the MP’s page: “He was also Chief Engineer of the McDonnell Douglas Saturn S-IV space vehicle (he ran a 3,000-person department); director of Advanced Space Stations and Planetary Systems, the advanced design function of the division. He was also in charge of the launch of early ballistic missiles and space vehicles from Cape Canaveral. His career at Douglas spanned a 16-year period, from 1952 to 1968.”. I remember asking him to write his memoirs, last year. Double loss if he didn’t.

My condolences! Ted Gordon was an outstanding think tank and method developer in the futures field. Restemy of S in peace!

So sad, we planned together the NATO Science for Peace project. I learned of Ted Gordon as an extraordinary scholar and wise person. This is a great loss for our community. My heartfelt condolences to the family.

Feel deeply saddened at the passing of Ted Gordon. He was a through professional with a heart of gold. With prayers for Peace for a great human being.

How Sad. I just emailed him. What a loss. Yes, Ted was a gentle giant. Well said, Jerry.

Very sad news Jerry. May Ted G’s memory always be for a blessing. Maybe we could set up some kind of college scholarship in his memory?

That is more than sad… he was one of the futures pioneers and we will always remember him whenever conducting a Delphi survey. Rest in peace.

From my work with him I agree with your description of Ted. He will be greatly missed. My condolences to you.

Thank you for letting us know. He was a futures giant.

Dear Elizabeth, Jerry and MP family. My condolences and prayers. With respect, admiration and gratitud to everliving Teds contributions and meaningful life. RIP. Sincerely,

I am deeply saddened by the shocking news. I sincerely express my deepest condolences! Wishing you all the best in heaven! Thank you for everything you have done for this world. We will never forget such a great person!

It is really sad that Ted has left us. He is a great future scholar, a supporter and mentor in my academic field！Ted will be immortal forever！

One of my favorite memories of Ted is when I mentioned to him that I so wish I had met him way back then (ed with Olaf Helmer and Goldschmidt in 1967 at the release of their Kaiser Future Game) (I was in grade school at the time, and a neighbor who knew him had given me his book “The Future” a few years earlier so it wasn’t entirely improbable), and he replied, “oh, no you don’t – I was kind of a jerk back then!” To which I replied, “.. and your comment proves you weren’t!”

We are truly saddened to hear about Ted’s passing away. He has left an enormous legacy to our field that will last forever. His gracious personality has also touched us and so many people worldwide. Our deep condolences to his family and friends.

Dear friends of the MP, With deep pain and emotion I accompany Ted’s family, Jerry, Elizabeth and all the members of the Millennium Project who have been lucky enough to know Ted and his Wife, to learn so much from him, not only about futures studies, but of their personal integrity, their ethical and moral values.

This is a very sad news! My sincere condolences to Ted’s family and may his legacy live on. Thank you very much, Ted. Rest in Peace!

What sad news – I am also struggling with finding words. Indeed a massive loss, and the best kind of giant he was. Here’s to you, Ted! Condolences to family, friends, all who loved wonderful Ted.

I am very sad about Ted Gordon’s death. He was a friend and mentor. We were proud to have him among us, as he was one of the generation of pioneers in futures research. His name will remain for everyone who enters the field of future studies.

What a big loss? My deepest condolences . Ted was a great man, I barely interacted with him directly but his work speaks volume about him. As our hearts are breaking for him, let us get consolation from his works which shall remain with us.

I am so so sorry. It is very sad that these great minds have left us. I hope he rests in peace. Sorry for your loss. I wish patience to his family and loved ones.

I am so sorry to hear about the loss of Ted. Wishing you strength and solace as you navigate through this profound grief.

My condolences for their loving people and for you, Jerry. Besides pain, let´s celebrate a great life.

I like the description of Ted as a “gentle giant.” I worked with him in 1970 when I was a research fellow with the Educational Policy Research Center at Syracuse, and Ted and Olaf were constructing an early Delphi exercise for us. Lots of fun, and Ted was never over-bearing as we proceeded with our questions. Sorry to hear of his passing, of course! And the many futurists who mourn his passing reflects his “giant” influence.

Ted was cast into history when serious futures work was a gleam in precious few eyes. He never focused on being alone. He saw the opportunity to grow something new; something significant. For that alone, he is to be remembered and honoured. The scale and scope of his contributions are the fruits of his insight, impulses and courage. Ted was a living demonstration that the person and the work are fused. They cannot be teased apart. For this aspect of his life I am especially thankful.

This is truly saddening. will miss ted’s kindness and generosity. as i read jerrys words, it sparked memories of my interactions with ted – what a giant, a genius. connecting with him over ideas came easy because his patience was boundless. he inspired thought. accept my sincere condolences.

I am sad to hear about Ted. My deepest condolences to Ted’s family and friends.

Why do futurists’ ideas matter? Because companies that can see into the future will have more opportunities down the road.” Ted Gordon said when he came to Korea in 2017. It breaks my heart to lose a great futurist who was not only important to the world, but also to Korea.

Muy lamentable Conchita. Si puedes hacer extensivas a su familia, amigos y allegados que la World Future Society Capitulo Mexicano lamenta profundamente esta pérdida.

Dear Elizabeth and Jeronimo: I hug you with all my heart and my love for the great loss of Ted. My heart is broken. My brain is filled with foresight light thanks to him. God bless you.

I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and colleagues of Ted Gordon. His contributions as a leading figure in Futures and Foresight have left an indelible mark on the field, and his legacy will be remembered with great respect. May his pioneering work continue to inspire future generations in the pursuit of forward-thinking insights.

Thank you, Elizabeth, and Jerry for your brief reflection. My condolences to the family, friends and all at MP for our sad loss. His legacy is part of our futures.

Very sorry to hear of Ted’s passing. You are right – he was a giant. He will be missed. Sincerely

The departure of Ted hurts. An irreparable loss. There are no words to describe it. A MAN. a TEACHER, a FRIEND. Good trip and that God receives it as it deserves

I am greatly saddened to read of Ted’s death. “A gentle Giant” is totally consistent with my own characterization of him. And I know that the relationship you two have had over so many years has been of greatest importance to both of you. My condolences as you deal with his passing.

Very sad news. I loved his talks, his writing, his computing, his friendship.

Dear Jerry and friends of the Millennium Project, at the Chilean Council for Prospective and Strategy and the Chile Node we have received with great regret the sad news of the death of Ted Gordon. A great one indeed, that he made an enormous contribution to prospective thinking, futures studies and the methodologies to apply them. We know and remember his important contributions in Latin America and his friendship with Chilean prospectists. Our feelings of regret and our sympathy to his family.

The news is hard to take in! I wish all who have known Ted and worked with him, or had a special connection, all strength with the mourning process. My deep feelings go to his family.

Fare thee well, Ted. RIP but shine on!!

So sad! We will cherish his legacy!

So very sorry to hear about Ted’s passing. We admired him as an RTD inventor, method innovator and a gentle person. His biography was enough to fill several lifetimes. Rest in Peace. A big loss for our community so I reckon a portion of March 1st World Future Day could be dedicated to his memory. Condolences to all who shared memories of Ted.

So sorry to hear the unbelievable sad news! My sincere condolences to Ted’s family and to the entire MP family.

What a saddening shock… Our respected Ted had already gained a part of eternity at that moment. We have been suffering with him and his family. Respect and courage to his Family…

A terrible loss! I got to know him rather late, but I was always impressed by his outstanding intelectual and humane qualities. May God rest him in peace!

Yes, it is a tremendous loss. Ted indeed was a force of creativity, deep curiosity, and exceptional kindness. His contributions will long remain.

How sad! My feeling is that I have lost someone from my cosmic family. Even without so much contact with him, but just through the occasions I met him, that’s the feeling. I feel like having known him many many years ago and having him in my ancestral memory of the past and future. He is now a star lighting up the universe. Lucky the stars that will have him now. Thank you for all I learnt from you, Ted. You will keep on in my eternal memory. R.I.P, Ted. My sincere condolences to his family, his friends and colleagues, specially to those who have had the privilege of working closely with Ted Like you Elizabeth and Jerry.

Prayers and fond memories are what we have to remember our dearly Ted… My most heartfelt condolences to the family members and for all who had a privilege to be touched by Ted’s incredible personality. Honored we had Ted as teacher with Elizabeth, Jerry and Jose for our Foresight course several years. RIP dear Ted…

I can’t write any words. Any words would be too small for our Ted. Only tears and sadness right now.

Sad news… Ted was an amazing individual… I have vivid memories of his cheerful, infectious, enthusiam from decades ago…

Ted was amazing; he never stopped giving to the futures field, particularly the MP. Hooray for Ted. Fond memories for us all.

Ted was one of the most gentle and knowledgeable people that I have ever met. Always kind, always stimulating. He will be missed but his legacy will remain.

He will be greatly missed for his wide-ranging and far-sighted contributions.

Ted was truly one of the greatest, in futures, in the world.

Oh! My condolences! Teds name was wellknown. So also his contributions!

It is really sad that Ted has left. He was a wonderful person and a reference for all of us. Always ready to help and give advice. He will always be in our hearts!

We lost Ted!!!! The pain seems unbearable. An extraordinary loss not only for his family, friends and collaborators, but for society as a whole!!!! There aren’t words to describe what Ted meant both on professional and personal levels to all of us who had the privilege of having him part of our life. He really was — and will remain — one of a kind, who happens very rarely and marks history forever. His inventiveness, energy, ethical values, kindness, intellectual honesty, and dedication to improving the human condition and building a better future for all are a legacy that will continue to influence the future. The universe where he is now, will be a better place thanks to Ted. But here, he will be highly missed!

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