For me, a random sales guy took the cake when he introduced himself as “Chief Innovation Evangelist”.
If you think that’s strange, wait until you see the Scientologists.
I know that is used for someone who generally has a good enough grasp on science and technology to make rough approximations of what could happen as those fields progress, but it sounds like a fancy term for a psychic.
I’m switching my LinkedIn title to Futuronomist to avoid this kind of mixup
Don’t worry, everyone that’s supposed to get a good grasp at Tech and science gets as wrong as everyone else.
Fusion power plants are a decade away. As well as quantum computers for practical applications, and general artificial intelligence. Everything that is more than ten year gets compressed into "next decade’.