futurist
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augur, diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer, visionary
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But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite. — Peter Holley, Anchorage Daily News, "Virtual afterlife: ‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father’," 30 Aug. 2019 But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite. — Peter Holley, Washington Post, "‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.’," 29 Aug. 2019 Other dynamic futurists included Thomas Edison and Bill Gates, and an Indiegogo promotional video compared IdealFuture to Rosa Parks and the Tiananmen Square protesters. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam," 13 Aug. 2019 Some futurists have decidedly more fantastical motivations. — Sigal Samuel, Vox, "Facebook is building tech to read your mind. The ethical implications are staggering.," 5 Aug. 2019 The two-day brainstorming event, hosted by founder Peter Diamandis and opened with a keynote by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, was like a historic secret gathering filled with noted longevity scientists planning on conquering death. — Zoltan Istvan, Quartz, "Rich people shouldn’t be the only ones who get to live forever," 29 July 2019 Morgan Delt leads the bill with his gauzy futurist stylings, alongside the cosmic grit of Pearl Charles, creative polymath Vinyl Williams and newcomers The Sunsettes. — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, "Best live music in L.A.: Robyn, Cuco, XXL Freshman and more," 24 July 2019 In the retro-futurist ’80s, Thierry Mugler made space suits and alien beauties. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Just Wait Until Fashion Designers Get Their Hands on This Black Hole Picture," 10 Apr. 2019 Mikel, also a historian and a futurist, says White’s work has helped inform organizational efforts to leave even less of a trace on the playa than Burning Man has in the past — ironically making her archaeology more challenging. — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, "The Vanishing City," 13 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'futurist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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