futurescape
Americannoun
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futurescapes
plural
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an imaginative portrayal of a future world, society, or particular environment, as in works of science fiction.
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a potential state of affairs thought of as the likely outcome of a current course of action, series of events, etc.
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“For the Ride” is not exactly an optimistic book, since life as we know it in this futurescape is toast.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
This rush across Apple’s depopulated futurescape is interrupted by an Apple Watch notifying our hero that she had completed her activity goal for the day; she runs into a colleague who uses his to teleport.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018
At once creatively futuristic and hypnotically retro, Beyond the Black Rainbow will absorb viewers in its unique dystopian futurescape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape of spires and saucers, globes and polyhedrons, sweeping carapaces and shimmering towers of aluminum, glass and steel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of volumes quantifying what computers will do for our math, medicine and management, but The Second Self explores a broader futurescape.
From Time Magazine Archive
New car events are usually pretty cringe, full of pointless pyrotechnics, emotionless futurescapes, shameless pandering to “the youth,” or hapless CEO antics.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
Together, their minor-keyed, dystopian futurescapes have come to dominate mid-teens hip-hop.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2015
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