prescient

With the passage of time, it seems more and more prescient.

This is a really prescient article. It brings up exactly the right UI points, and the right problems.

Unless the gcc team is prescient, I don't see how any other conclusion can be drawn.

Is it really that prescient? By 1985 there were lots of BBSes you could dial into and connect with people from across the nation.

Look how prescient the NSA are. They've been working on this capability for sixty years or more.

Her use of the word 'adapt' is quite prescient. Things are going to change; we have so much momentum at this point that it is unavoidable.

Note: This article is from 2007 and is quite prescient. It's completely shameful how bad the specified read error rates are now.

Julian Assange is seeming more and more prescient every other day.

Maybe the Terminator comparisons were all too prescient...

Is that how it works, or do lots of people build lots of things, and when a tiny handful of them go big the creators are retroactivley deemed prescient?

If I'd done that at 15, then I wouldn't have started to doubt myself and stop working on ideas that later turned out to be very prescient. The most important thing you should do is the thing that's most important to you.

Idicoracy is especially amusing because as the years go on, it only seems more prescient. I'd also point out that King of the Hill was a great show, if a little too dry for most tastes.

These are some really prescient predictions... - The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal.

Thinking back to this brings up in my mind the conversation with the AI Morpheus in Deus Ex [2]; looks like it is still a tossup whether it will turn out to have been prescient. I don't consider data mining to be inherently unethical but I'm not sure what to think of this.

The essay was about an article he was writing during which the software brought up a saved article and a note he had written, and forgotten about, in a creepily timely and seemingly prescient moment. He wondered at what point the software needs to get credit for providing the research and the associations."

For example, the FSF has long warned of the dangers of DRM, and in recent years these warnings have proved themselves prescient now that we have things like Amazon remotely wiping Kindles on a whim and deleting objectionable books. More recently, the FSF has begun making a lot of noise about the dangers of SecureBoot.

One can make some leaps of faith, some intelligent extrapolations and some prescient forecasts, but ultimately, it's something expressed largely in the observational language and ontology of today. Thus, I can't bring myself to fault someone for doubting, in 1995, that the consumer web is going to be what it is today, or even be what it was six or seven years later, in the early 2000s.

When you reach that point, ideas that will seem to other people uncannily prescient will seem obvious to you. You may not realize they're startup ideas, but you'll know they're something that ought to exist. I think this is one reason why geographic clusters of startups occur: You get a few people "living in the future" co-located and suddenly the "uncannily prescient" idea no longer just seem obvious to you, they seem obvious to everyone around you too, and everyone wants them now.

How prescient of Greenwald: "Relatedly, we find the prevailing sentiment that asylum is something that is only to be granted by the US and its western allies against unfriendly governments. The notion that one may need asylum from the US or the west or that small Latin American countries unfavorable to the US can grant it rather than have it granted against them is offensive and perverse to all good and decent western citizens, who know that political persecution is something that happens only far away from them."