as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy
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Our futurist and columnist Rich Karlgaard unpacks the deeper impact of DeepSeek and who could be a winner in the AI race.
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Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Another crusader to protect the Station into the next centuries, space futurist Rick Tumlinson, heaps accolades on the former ESA and NASA directors for issuing their global appeal for a reprieve for the ISS.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
This column is the script for the news portion of the author’s weekly podcast co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
As Domo's chief design officer and futurist, Chris Willis writes on AI and combining data, technology and emerging trends in innovative.
—Chris Willis, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Another crusader to protect the Station into the next centuries, space futurist Rick Tumlinson, heaps accolades on the former ESA and NASA directors for issuing their global appeal for a reprieve for the ISS.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
This column is the script for the news portion of the author’s weekly podcast co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
As Domo's chief design officer and futurist, Chris Willis writes on AI and combining data, technology and emerging trends in innovative.
—Chris Willis, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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On the sublime 12-inch version—dub itself being a kind of ghost music—Rico Rodriguez takes his long solo as if standing atop a prophet’s peak, overlooking a city in flames.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Maybe investors know something that the administration’s oddball collection of economic ideologues and mystics don’t understand.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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For her part, af Klint identified more as a mystic than as an artist, at times claiming to channel the astral plane with her work.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
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