futurists

plural of futurist

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Recent Examples of futurists The first two Democratic Presidents during the Valley’s apotheosis, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, presented themselves as technology-friendly futurists, and the Valley supported their campaigns and helped staff their Administrations. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 Whereas futurists look forward to achieving eternal life by uploading their brains to the cloud, many prefer a more traditional conception of salvation. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, futurists and the Bureau of Labor Statistics project that Gen Z and Gen Alpha will average 18 to 25 jobs and six to nine distinct career chapters, more than double the volatility of prior generations. — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Some futurists compare this development to our primitive ancestors’ discovery of fire. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026 For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes. — Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026 The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case. — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026 Tech CEOs and futurists have long described Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, as one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence. — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025 What’s clear is that crypto has become much bigger than the retail traders and techno futurists who are committed to HODLing through thick and thin. — Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurists
Noun
  • Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Light showers will move into the Charlotte area early Saturday, then transition to a 90% chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms later in the day, forecasters say.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2026
  • On the heels of a miserably sticky summer, an unusually long October heat wave is set to arrive, according to forecasters.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Oracles, prophets and practices of divination offered guidance from inscrutable or enigmatic sources when ordinary human judgment reached its limits.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This overarching label encompassed Anabaptists, Baptists, Brownists, Levelers, Antinomians, Presbyterians, Ranters and many of the highly individual prophets and seers of 1640s Britain.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Futurists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurists. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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