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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Near the beginning of Cryptum, Bornstellar says that the word "Forerunner" was a name that the Forerunners gave themselves as they believed that it indicated their fleeting time in the upholding of the Mantle and in the history of the galaxy, and that they would pass the Mantle to another in time.
So it is not really a name like "Human" or "Sangheili", it is more like a title. The Forerunners will have their own species name. But if it is a title then 343 GS statement is technically correct, because just like the Forerunner, Humanity will, probably, hand the Mantle over to another one day and like every race be nothing more than a blip in the timescales of the Universe.
Or something.
Also, Bungie could not have meant for Humans to be directly related the the Forerunner, because in the Halo 3 terminals both (Primitive) Humans and Forerunners existed at the same time.
[Edited on 08.02.2011 7:06 AM PDT]