The research that shaped the framework.

Some documented an interesting person or event. Others did something more important.

They changed the question.

They encouraged Chris to test an observation elsewhere, develop a new part of the methodology, compare previously unrelated cases or investigate whether a recurring structure might exist.

Those studies form the foundation of this collection. The purpose is not to present them as final proof of a finished theory.

It is to show where important ideas emerged, how the research developed and why certain investigations became significant to everything that followed.

Kevin Quinn Avery was reported to have predicted Richard Nixon’s resignation to the date and hour, months before it happened. Chris Styles could find the claim, but not the calculation behind it. So he set out to reconstruct the missing pathway from year to month, to day, to hour.

Could Avery’s reported prediction of Nixon’s resignation be reconstructed using a transparent, repeatable sequence of calculations?

Chris progressively narrowed Nixon’s timeline to 1974 → August → 9 August → 12:00 noon. The most striking point came on 9 August, when four independently calculated daily profiles repeated the same reduced values already active at the monthly level: 3 | 1 | 7 | 6.

In 2020, Chris Styles asked what appeared to be a missing question: what about the individual human being inside those futures? That question led him to propose “Human Futurology” and began a journey from predicting events towards understanding human decision contexts through time.

Can the principles of futures thinking be applied meaningfully at the level of the individual human being?

Chris distinguished macro-futurology from micro-futurology, hifting the focus from large systems to the changing risks, opportunities and experiences of individuals, and whether that insight could improve decisions.

The more layers he added, the more interesting question became not what any single number meant—but what happened when independently calculated timelines began to align.

Can multiple layers of an individual’s timing architecture identify periods that deserve greater attention than any single forecast could reveal?

The original model evolved from one annual number into a multi-layer system spanning;

annual → quarterly → monthly → weekly → daily periods

While simultaneously distinguishing personal, professional and emotional dimensions. Chris became particularly interested when the same structures appeared independently across more than one layer—an early form of what Human Futurist research now examines as temporal convergence.

Traditional numerology could provide Chris Styles with dozens of numbers about a person. But there was a problem: they were usually interpreted one at a time. Chris began asking what would happen if the pieces were connected, and then modelled across different areas of a person’s life and across time.

Could integrating multiple numerical variables reveal more than interpreting each number independently?

The important shift wasn’t the discovery of another number. It was the move from reading to modelling: preserving complete sequences, connecting more than 100 variables and organising them across personal, emotional, professional and temporal dimensions rather than treating each as a separate piece of information.

A 2022 Human Futurist article started with a familiar idea, change your thinking and you can change your results. But Chris added something unusual: what if you could identify a potentially important future period first, then deliberately change how you approached it?

Can personalised future-risk intelligence improve decisions by allowing someone to change their behaviour before a consequential period arrives?

The research had begun moving beyond prediction. The emerging model was:

FUTURE PATTERN → AWARENESS → INTERVENTION → DIFFERENT DECISION → POSSIBLY DIFFERENT OUTCOME

That created an unexpected problem: if intervention prevents the predicted outcome, has the forecast failed—or has the intervention succeeded?

Explore the wider research collections and follow how individual studies connect across leadership, performance, politics, innovation, human behaviour and consequence.

The Featured Foundational Research collection presents the studies that helped turn individual questions into a much larger programme of investigation.