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Futurist

Futurist \Fu"tur*ist\, n.

  1. One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

  2. (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

Wiktionary
futurist

a. In the style of futurism. n. 1 An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism. 2 One who studies and predicts possible futures.

WordNet
futurist

adj. of or relating to futurism; "futurist art" [syn: futuristic]

futurist
  1. n. a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) will be fulfilled in the future

  2. someone who predicts the future [syn: fantast]

Wikipedia
Futurist

Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.

Futurist (Alec Empire album)

Futurist is an album by Alec Empire, released in 2005. It is the follow-up to 2001's Intelligence and Sacrifice and is notable for the fact that the use of electronics for which Empire is famed is reduced in favour of guitars and drum beats, giving the album more of a punk/metal sound than its predecessor.

Futurist (comics)

Futurist (Randolph James) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Usage examples of "futurist".

In Moscow it was much noisier and less dignified, and its principal centres were the poetical cafes, where Futurists and Imaginists read their verse and fought out their literary battles.

What Gertrude Stein has done for prose, what the wilder vers libre bards are doing for poetry, what cubists and futurists are doing for painting and sculpture, that Voke Easeley is doing for vocal music.

A degenerate Englishman may be brutal and coarse, but he could never be guilty of the inane or the outrageous things which the Cubists, the Imagists, the Futurists, and the other Ists among the French have turned out.

Mayakovsky, the founder of LEF, a loose association of Futurists and Constructivists which sought to link the avant-garde with Proletkult and the Soviet state.

The Zards are followers of the future, or Futurists as they are called.

In a word, the Pastites believe that history, the reality of the past, governs the present and the future, while the Futurists believe that the future defines the present and the past.

For their part, the Futurists want to change the present through the future, to go into the future and bring back its completion, in the form of restored RNA cells, which is congruent with their belief that the past is the past and all that matters is that which is yet to come, that which still has the hope of existence.

On one side the Pastites wish to correct the root of the problem by stopping its realization in the past, the Futurists, however, would venture into the future and brings its stabilization and completion back.

All you have to do is join us, the Futurists, and we will reward you with all the power and glory that you can imagine.

The Pastites would say that you were sent forward in time, because you existed in our past, while the Futurists would say that you were sent backwards in time because you existed in our future.

You see, my dear Jehu, the Pastites and Futurists interpret the prophecy to mean that the kinsman redeemer has come to renew the earth, as you have no doubt heard, although there is strong evidences to the contrary.

Hundreds of books, as you know, have been filled with exegetical opinions about the Impressionists, Expressionists, Suprematists, Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists, and Surrealists of the early years of this century.

Shall be busy to-night and in the morning, but will be at the the dansant at the Futurist Tea Room to-morrow afternoon about four.

There had been an Impressionist school, a Post-Impressionist school, an Expressionist school, an Abstract Expressionist school, a Cubist school, a Futurist school, a Pop school and an Op school, and so on.

But in a few years, to their utter astonishment, they will discover that the new judges and officials are Shavvies, that the incoming administrators and scientists and doctors and futurists and artists and writers—all the Students coming out of the Multiversities, in other words—are Shavvies.