When in 1973 people were first beginning to speak about the Society for Future Studies, it wasn’t much more than an idea espoused by some Sufi converts who were coming out of the Neo-Orientalist counterculture of the late 60s. Having become increasingly disillusioned with the failure of the hippie revolution and feeling the impending sense of doom at the height of the Cold War, some of them would begin to combine their spiritual background with a dark embrace of the then news-dominating and world-threatening technologies. The Society has existed on and off ever since, its members diffuse, constantly changing, renewing and often operating under pseudonyms; its writings consisting of little more than scattered notes.

It wasn’t until 2023, 50 years after the Society had first been mentioned, that its plans were put into practice by a group of strangely synchronic online Muslims who had rallied around the sparse and multi-linguistic archive material. Reviving the Society as the "Society for an Alternative Islamic Futurology", the group went public in 2024, voicing its intention to steer the Islamic (and non-Islamic) world towards a different direction. Now, a year later, the time has come to take the first steps in moving into the real world. Committed to the cosmopolitan hippie influenced residue of its predecessors, the SAIF mapping project will serve the function of analyzing trends around the globe: locating, mapping and documenting zones of intensity.