futurist
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈfjuːtʃərɪst/
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futurólogo
- Jacque Fresco is a futurist.
- futurists and innovators
- prospectivist or futurist
- futurist project
When we come back, we'll continue my conversation with futurist Ray Kurzweil on Startalk.
- When we come back, we'll continue my conversation with futurist Ray Kurzweil on Startalk.
- I mean, a few futurists would have predicted that.
- So most futurists that you hear about are tech people.
- Your your title is paleontologist slash futurist.
- And I went to to Saud Bai last week and I did the conversation with the with the futurist Amy Webb.
- Joining me now is futurist CEO of Future Made and author of the book The Future of you.
- I know you're not a futurist, but are you excited?
- I don't I don't like when people think I'm a futurist or or a disruptor.
- By the way, Tim, you are an excellent futurist.
- He was able to think of himself as a kind of futurist.
- The uncomfortable thing about the Unabomber is that he had a lot of the same philosophies that futurists do today.
- He says you have to understand the difference between the past news and new because he was a futurist.
- Not like in a, oh, I'm in my garage building technology, but you're a futurist in a way that I think everybody needs to wrap their head around you.
Examples
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The futurist spoke at the conference about the potential impact of artificial intelligence on society.
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James Robertson is an independent futurist and a prolific writer about the new economics.
Academic text (2001) -
And we have, in my opinion, the greatest futurist of our time today.
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A futurist is someone for whom all thoughts and actions are based upon what tomorrow could be.
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It's a world that only a futurist has the nerve to imagine and the capacity to create.
Academic text (2007) -
Joining me now is futurist CEO of Future Made and author of the book The Future of you.
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So most futurists that you hear about are tech people.
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I mean, a few futurists would have predicted that.
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"It's a way for America to get back its call centers," futurist Garry Golden told me.
Academic text (2012) -
Today's futurists warn worried university professors that the era of books and texts is passing.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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A person who predicts future events using data or models
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A person who says they can see the future
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A person who says the Sun, Moon, and planets show your future
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9.9
A person who says they can tell the future
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A person who predicts future events using knowledge or signs
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6.5
A person who says they can see someone's future, often using cards or palm reading
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A person who says what will happen using knowledge or data
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A person who says what will happen by looking at the sun, moon, and planets
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A person who studies future trends and predicts them
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A person who says what will happen in the future
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A person who reads lines on a hand to tell the future
A person who looks forward to something
A person who says what will happen in the future, often as a job
A person who predicts future events
A person who says they can tell the future from dreams
How Visionary
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- Jargon
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word futurist comes from future, from the Latin 'futurus' meaning 'what will be', and the ending -ist means 'a person who does or studies something'. So a futurist is someone who studies trends and makes predictions about what will happen.