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(n. / v.)
The act of (over)confidently narrating a future you haven’t tested or researched, often with slides.
Experienced executives can spot futuresplaining by the third slide, usually a hockey-stick graph followed by a robot-human handshake stock photo.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Future + -splaining; inspired by mansplaining. Expect this to boom as AI makes superficially compelling foresight easy to produce. And yes, we aspire to never become guilty of this either now, or in the future!
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.