Every now and then, we see somebody that seems to be living 1,000 years into the future. Since we always lament when people aren't recognized for their greatness until long after their time, we can find ourselves heaping a bunch of praise on someone who seems like they might fit the bill.
Sure, this sometimes means that we hype up someone as a prophet of the way of the future because they wore a weird outfit once. Still, I guess that if we keep predicting that people will grow to be geniuses beyond our tiny human comprehension, we're bound to be right eventually.
So I suppose time will tell who on this list we were right about and who we jumped the gun on.