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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Examples of futurist in a Sentence
economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy
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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.
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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
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
PechaKucha Night: Vision 2074 Artists, architects, futurists and academics present their visions for the San Diego region in 50 years in a never-boring performance format at one of the region's best art spaces.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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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
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
PechaKucha Night: Vision 2074 Artists, architects, futurists and academics present their visions for the San Diego region in 50 years in a never-boring performance format at one of the region's best art spaces.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/futurist. Accessed 5 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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