future history
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8.1
- noun
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historia futura
- The novel can be read as a sort of future history of the Great Bay area and is told retrospectively: the narrator uses the past tense and has an overview of the entire time period covered.
- write the future history
Examples
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I sometimes work in a long-lived fictional future history: Larry Niven's "Known Space."
Blog text (12) -
I'm working on a critically important problem—critically important to the IPR Bureau as well as to the future history of this planet—and I certainly could use some help.
Fiction book (2001) -
No surprise then that his future history of the universe moves steadily in an ever more utopian direction.
Blog text (13) -
The Great Bay narrates a fictional future history of California's Central Valley, where a great bay forms due to rising sea levels.
Academic text (2018) -
We've got two urban fantasies and one alternate future history...
Blog text (22) -
The challenge—and much of the fun—of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before.
Blog text (12) -
Partula was a natural evolutionary laboratory, and Crampton toiled so that others could move the work forward and continue to learn about evolution by tracing the future history of Partula.
Academic text (1991) -
Despite some efforts in this direction (the most visible being the work by the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College), more attention is required to preserve the materials needed to write the future history of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Academic text (1997) -
The ambitious author published a future history that predicted significant technological advancements based on current trends.
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In her lecture, she presented a compelling future history that envisioned the societal impacts of climate change over the next fifty years.
How Plausible
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4.8
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4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
future + history
The phrase combines 'future' (time to come) with 'history' (an account of events), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it means an account or record of future events. The nuance of speculative analysis is an extension of that compositional meaning but does not block straightforward derivation, making the MWE transparent.
Etymology
The term future history comes from the simple image of writing a 'history' book about the future, like a timeline that shows events that have not happened yet. Writers and researchers use this picture to plan or imagine what might come next, so the phrase means 'an account of imagined future events'.