"gainsayer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Robin McKie, \"'Super Brain' to eclipse the Net adds to power of machines,\" The Observer at guardian.co.uk, 21 May (retrieved 8 Sep. 2008)",
          "text": "This urge to ensure the continued viability of UK science is balanced by warnings that such a system brings closer the day when computers will take over the running of the world and discard humanity. One such gainsayer is Bill Joy, inventor of the web language Java and chief scientist at computer giant Sun Microsystems."
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