futurist
noun
fu·tur·ist
ˈfyü-chə-rist 
1
: one who studies and predicts the future especially on the basis of current trends
2
: one who advocates or practices futurism
futurist
adjective
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economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy
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Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change.
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Larry English, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Greene later surfaced a nine-year-old CBS News clip featuring futurist and physicist Michio Kaku discussing experimental lab research into weather modification using lasers.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While at Bessemer, Kurzweil, the son of famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, invested in unicorns LaunchDarkly and Intercom, as well as now-public PagerDuty ($1.7 billion market cap) and Twitch, acquired by Amazon for just under $1 billion.
—Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the Law of Accelerating Returns, developed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, the years between 2000 and 2014 saw progress equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, and another 20th-century’s-worth of progress will happen in half that time, by 2021.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
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Larry English, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Greene later surfaced a nine-year-old CBS News clip featuring futurist and physicist Michio Kaku discussing experimental lab research into weather modification using lasers.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While at Bessemer, Kurzweil, the son of famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, invested in unicorns LaunchDarkly and Intercom, as well as now-public PagerDuty ($1.7 billion market cap) and Twitch, acquired by Amazon for just under $1 billion.
—Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the Law of Accelerating Returns, developed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, the years between 2000 and 2014 saw progress equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, and another 20th-century’s-worth of progress will happen in half that time, by 2021.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/futurist. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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futurist
noun
fu·tur·ist
ˈfyü-chə-rəst
: a person who tries to tell what the future will be like by studying current trends
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