prescient

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Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

One prescient call in 2023 from its “age of scarcity” predicted an era of cheap credit and commodities was ending and that so-called real assets and infrastructure would benefit.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Indeed, prescient sci-fi has been modeling an “artificial general intelligence-machines-take-over-the-world” moment for many decades.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

“It felt prescient then,” Messineo said of engaging Martinez last year, “and I think even more so now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Virginia's posture toward assumption was now making his prophecy look prescient.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis