technologist
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Origin of technologist
First recorded in 1855–60; technolog(y) + -ist
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He was widely viewed as a relentless technologist, bringing electric vehicles into the mainstream as the head of Tesla while also developing revolutionary reusable rocket technology at SpaceX.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Christina Onasoglou is a food technologist specialising in dairy products who runs with her husband a medium-sized dairy that exports 98 percent of the feta it produces.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
These include invisible watermarks embedded directly into images and cryptographic signatures linked to the technologist at the time of image capture, which can help verify authenticity.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
When I mention this feat of incompetence to the technologist inside the examining room, she tells me I could’ve just taken off my shirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The article seemed straightforward enough, detailing how Google had managed to hire legendary technologist Louis Monier away from eBay, where he was heading advanced technology.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
"Working with technologists, workers and unions can help steer the UK's research and innovation towards workers' priorities for automation... avoiding job-cutting, low-productivity automation," the TUC said in its report.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
DeepMind — established in 2010 by Hassabis and fellow technologists Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman — became the first modern artificial-general-intelligence lab, and its 2014 acquisition by Google famously galvanized the creation of OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
We believe that technologists should design systems that admit uncertainty and need to educate users about how to interpret AI outputs responsibly.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
“Chinese technologists are close observers of the U.S. AI ecosystem, and sometimes they say what they think,” Remler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Those who dreamed and speculated about the laws of Nature talked with the technologists and the engineers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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