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Travel
(n.)
An engagingly real travel adventure experienced entirely from the sofa via immersive virtual reality devices.
Their anniversary sofari had them floating over Cappadocia, ready to pause anytime the baby monitor crackled.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Sofa + safari: where safari is the Swahili word for journey (from Arabic safar, travel). The optimistic future imagines how this can reopen the world for those unable to travel, while an alternative reading imagines a future where simulations get good enough to rival the trip and “travelers” choose convenience over intrepidness.
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.