Desperately Seeking Neologism

[andrewducker]

If there isn't a word for "the futures we used to have" then there ought to be.

Comments

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

http://www.paleofuture.com/

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[dpolicar]

You're right, there should be.
And for the more general but related notion of nodes in a directed graph that are inaccessible from node A but accessible from its precursor B.
I suggest we call them "Maine nodes" -- or, in the specific case you raised, "Maine futures."

I'm curious

[andrewducker]

Why Maine?

Re: I'm curious

[dpolicar]

"You can't get theah from heah."

Hm. This is perhaps an American thing. Perhaps even a Northeast American thing.

It's part of the stereotype of Maine residents... picture an old laconic backwoodsy fellow on a rocking chair chewing a blade of grass and giving very slow and largely unhelpful directions to some high-strung yuppie with a fancy car.

Re: I'm curious

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I think our equivalent is "If that's where you're going, I wouldn't start from here!"

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

"where's my flying car, dammit"-osis

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Jetpack!

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

I'd be satisfied with a flying car, a great floating pontoon boat in the sky.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Paradise Lost?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I've been hearing the term retrofuture used for at least the last 5 years.