(n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
(n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(2) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
(3) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
(4) She's a symbol of revolt, and freedom, and hope … a futuristic Joan of Arc."
(5) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
(6) Also, Doc Brown's inventions changed 1985 and made it much more futuristic when Marty finally got back.
(7) "The ideal city is not one with gated communities, security cameras, a futuristic scene from Blade Runner , dark and dramatic, with profound unhappiness … We need to at least build a city where happiness is possible and where public space is really for everybody."
(8) I'm not a futurist kind of person, but I would expect over time that it's just going to be real common."
(9) *** I took off my futuristic yellow pants and my Rush club shirt and stepped into the shower.
(10) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
(11) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
(12) This is the world of titanium or cobalt-chromium joint designs, bone screws and plates, orthotic limbs, supports and wheelchairs, and futuristic ideas such as miniature video cameras for artificial eyes.
(13) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
(14) A futuristic sci-fi apparently: "An epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity."
(15) They don't align themselves with the thinkers, they align themselves with marketing, advertising, futurist crowd who are interested in ideas for the sake of ideas.
(16) I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city.
(17) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
(18) Some old, some current, and some futuristic techniques, including a few now operative but largely experimental, are mentioned, as is a concluding opinion of the minimum clinical routine providing the "best" information of the edema state.
(19) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
(20) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "
Futurologist
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If there's one thing practically all futurologists once agreed on, it's that in the 21st century there would be a lot less work.
(2) My primary strategy for living through the 21st century and beyond is not to die,” Ray Kurzweil, the futurologist and Google engineer has said .
(3) If Berlin is establishing itself as the sharing capital of Europe, said futurologist Peter Wippermann, it is above all because of the unique intersection between the alternative green movement and old industry.
(4) Chris Sanderson, futurologist and co-founder of trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory, thinks it’s simple: “The hipster died the minute we called him a hipster.
(5) We brought in a lot of outside help – military advisers, futurologists - we got together with a scenario planner from the department of defense, who is active in the Pentagon.
(6) Whatever David Cameron does with the rest of his life, I recommend that he does not pursue a career as a futurologist.
(7) Go back to any of the great expos, or even to the earliest futurologists – such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis of 1627, with its longevity drugs and flying machines, its robots and clones – and it sometimes seems that modernity has always contained the same set of yearnings about the future: stronger, faster, more automation, more communication.
(8) Customers, say the futurologists, love the convenience.
(9) In almost all cases, utopians, socialists and other futurologists believed that work would come near to being abolished for one reason above all – we could let the machines do it.
(10) Shortly afterwards, I interviewed a team of "futurologists" at BT.
(11) Adrian Hon, game creator and futurologist, recently suggested that we should introduce "nutrition facts" for freemium games, fact boxes that will let you know how much you're likely to spend on the game, and how to set limits on your playing time .