futurist
未来学家,未来主义者,未来派,未来人
Definitions
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- : a follower of futurism, especially an artist or writer.
- : Theology. a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse will be fulfilled in the future.Compare presentist, preterist.
- : Also fu·tur·ol·o·gist. a person whose occupation or specialty is the forecasting of future events, conditions, or developments.
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- : futuristic.
Examples
There’s an extent to which he’s a great prognosticator, a great futurist.
Knowing that my business sense, fashion sense, and trained eye has gotten me to where I am today, I am very grateful for that, and I think Jerome today is a futurist.
The most garrulous entry is Judy Lichtman’s retro-futurist treatment of Georg Baselitz’s 1961-1962 “Pandemonium Manifestos,” its words piled up with Dadaist swagger.
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil says it will be just a matter of a few decades.
As someone who rejects that view, play futurist for a second: What kind of technologies could displace the Internet?
The documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer opens with this quote by the futurist Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The best way to do this, he argues, is through an “adhocracy,” a term he borrows from the writer and futurist Alvin Toffler.
James P. Othmer is the author of ADLAND: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet and the novel THE FUTURIST.
James P. Othmer is the author of ADLAND: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet and the novel The Futurist.
We talked of the possibilities of next year's Salons and disagreed on the subject of futurist painting.
Why should you expect in him a super-instinct towards futurist sociology?