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Optimerary

(n.)

A bespoke AI-generated trip plan that optimizes itself in real time.

After their flight was canceled, the week's optimerary was rebooked before he’d even reached for his phone.

Does it ring true?

From the future, or already here?

Coinage notes

Optimized + itinerary. Where the guidebook addressed everyone and the travel agent knew one region, the optimerary is built for an audience of one, and can adapt to changing circumstances during the trip itself. Pronounced op-TIM-uh-rair-ee.

TECHNOLOGY

Docilescence

(n.)
The gradual softening into doing whatever your devices suggest, compliance arriving so slowly you mistake it for choice.

TRAVEL

Déjà-Ici

(n.)
The recognition of a place you’ve never been, but that feels familiar because of how thoroughly it was pre-consumed in your social media feed.

TRAVEL

Skyburb

(n.)
An outlying location transformed into prime real estate by the arrival of aerial transportation options and convenient drone delivery.
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