prescient

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Lemssouguer made prescient trades ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic and the software industry selloff this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

You wrote this very prescient article in the New York Times in 2017, “Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media.”

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

“Poetic though they sound, and I appreciate that you’ve just described both tender ballads of love and socially prescient commentary, I still don’t believe this rings any bells.”

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen