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Health
(n.)
Recovery undertaken before the illness arrives, guided by predictions of your future health precise enough to name the disease you would have had.
His precovery had no dramatic interventions, just new meal choices, cold exposure, and a diabetes diagnosis that never came.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Astronomers got here first: precovery is their word, short for “pre-discovery recovery,” for finding an asteroid in archival images taken before anyone knew to look for it. Medicine now does the same with your data, identifying early signals of disease from your eyes, your gait, even your speech.
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.