futurists

Noun

futurist (plural futurists)

1. An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
   • The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions
2. One who studies and predicts possible futures.
   • Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by...2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237

   Synonyms:

   futurologist

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