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futurist

Academic or commentator who predicts future trends. Notable futurists include English writers H G Wells and Aldous Huxley, and Watts Wacker, Alvin Toffler, and Peter Schwartz. Futurists focus on the following areas: forecasting the future; using quantitative and qualitative means; imagining the future intuitively; and creating the future.



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