{"product_id":"9781646873371","title":"Future Words","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 20 OCTOBER 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe future arrived early. Nobody updated the dictionary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEver felt a pang of nostalgia for a memory that was AI-generated and never actually happened? There's finally a word for that: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efauxstalgia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Sat through a colleague confidently narrating a future they haven't researched, with slides? That's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efuturesplaining\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is for word lovers, trend spotters, and anyone who has ever wished for a word that didn't quite exist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason - the bestselling futurists behind \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Future Normal - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecomes a lightly satirical glossary of the words we're all about to need. Drawing on nearly two decades of trend research, this beautifully designed compact book names the shifts you've already noticed and the feelings you've never been able to describe, across how we love, work, spend, play, parent, and travel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome entries will make you laugh out loud. Others will feel uncomfortably accurate:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLoopspeak\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(n.) -- The secondhand dialect of people who let machines do their thinking, where every sentence sounds like a bot wrote it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOutsourcery\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(n.) -- The everyday magic of handing a parenting task to technology and getting a result no previous generation could imagine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDatachondria\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(n.) -- The conviction that something is wrong with you, sustained by a steady drip of personal health data confirming your anxiety.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDoomchaser\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(n.) -- A traveler racing to witness disappearing glaciers, reefs, and coastlines before they're gone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSubscreep\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(n.) -- The quiet monthly accumulation of subscriptions you meant to cancel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow that AI can write your emails, invent your memories, and even help raise your kids, we need new words to understand all of it. Future words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's the perfect gift for the word lover who owns every etymology book, the friend who spots every trend first, the coworker who won't stop experimenting with AI, or the student graduating into a job that doesn't have a name yet. Or keep a copy for yourself. If you loved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause Internet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgospeak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Etymologicon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this is your next obsession.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bhargava, Rohit ; Coutinho-Mason, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48637119529214,"sku":"9781646873371","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Future_Words.png?v=1784862947","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781646873371","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}