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A rider watching the screen "would very naturally feel that the car is sensing everything around," says Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Daimler in Stuttgart, Germany.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2017

The truth is you probably shouldn’t believe any futurologist telling you they know the 10 technologies that’ll shape the future.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2017

In 1945, Clarke inadvertently launched a career as a futurologist with his outline for a geostationary communications satellite.

From Nature • Jan. 17, 2017

Musk, it seems, has been persuaded by what philosophers call the “simulation argument,” an idea given its definitive form in a 2003 paper by the Oxford philosopher and futurologist Nick Bostrom.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2016

The long tail is best described by business adviser, futurologist, guru and editor of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson, in his book The Long Tail, or Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2011