High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Forward thinking consists of using A. all 6 sensory experiences (vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, the mechanical internet with pre stored data plus the life internet with life input data combined), + B.fuzzy logic and/or abductive reasoning + C.backward chaining, + D.inductive reasoning, + E.deductive reasoning, to predict future events. Artificial intelligence researchers refer to it as forward chaining.