Shiv Nadar

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.

Indian Businessman

Kim Jong-un

My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the People's Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.

North Korean Leader

Fred Ehrsam

Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency.

American Businessman

Yoko Taro

Actually, multiple playthroughs and deleting save files are things that other games have done, so I don't see myself as a forerunner of those elements in the game.

Japanese Director

John Scofield

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

American Musician

Jim Capaldi

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

British Musician

Martin Cooper

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

American Scientist

Ma Huateng

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Chinese Businessman

Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Mexican Novelist

Charles Edwards

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Leader

Used to describe historic precursors to modern items or concepts.

Historic Link

Suggests a development or evolution from one state to another over time.

Indicate Progression

Can refer to abstract concepts, such as ideas or movements, not just physical objects.

Not Just Physical

Often indicates the presence of early signs predicting or announcing something.

Early Signs

Points to an event or object signifying the impending arrival of another occurrence.

Signals Arrival

Used in the context of nature to indicate seasonal or climate changes.

Natural Phenomena

 a quaint forerunner of things to come. It's a destabilized world. And unlike destabilized world in the past, it will be broadcast to you on YouTube, you will see it on digital television and on your cell phones. What will that lead to?

Larry Brilliant: The...

 He is delighted by the clarity of the sound. Laennec spends the next three years developing and testing various materials and mechanisms before settling on a hollow wooden tube with detachable plug. His device becomes the forerunner

How the stethoscope was...

 the science of astrobiology it compares worlds quite literally and he posits the theory that this planet is the only living planet that the others wherever they be in the universe are all dead it's also the forerunner of James

Forerunner