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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While at Bessemer, Kurzweil, the son of famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, invested in unicorns LaunchDarkly and Intercom, as well as now-public PagerDuty ($1.7 billion market cap) and Twitch, acquired by Amazon for just under $1 billion.
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Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the Law of Accelerating Returns, developed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, the years between 2000 and 2014 saw progress equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, and another 20th-century’s-worth of progress will happen in half that time, by 2021.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
PechaKucha Night: Vision 2074 Artists, architects, futurists and academics present their visions for the San Diego region in 50 years in a never-boring performance format at one of the region's best art spaces.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the Law of Accelerating Returns, developed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, the years between 2000 and 2014 saw progress equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, and another 20th-century’s-worth of progress will happen in half that time, by 2021.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
PechaKucha Night: Vision 2074 Artists, architects, futurists and academics present their visions for the San Diego region in 50 years in a never-boring performance format at one of the region's best art spaces.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Jason Lemon, Senior Politics Editor Philosophy The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran | Penguin Classics The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays by the legendary writer Gibran about a fictional prophet who is asked by townspeople to discuss matters of life before sailing home.Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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The obvious question is, how can a false prophet have the ability to perform miracles?Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2024
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The mystics were not just these people having these strange extreme experiences.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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