futurist

noun

fu·​tur·​ist ˈfyü-chə-rist How to pronounce futurist (audio)
1
: one who studies and predicts the future especially on the basis of current trends
2
: one who advocates or practices futurism
futurist adjective

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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Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change. 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 See all Example Sentences for futurist 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1846, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of futurist was circa 1846

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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/futurist. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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futurist

noun
fu·​tur·​ist ˈfyü-chə-rəst How to pronounce futurist (audio)
: a person who tries to tell what the future will be like by studying current trends
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