Atwood says of dystopian fiction: "The form was strewn with pitfalls, among them a tendency to sermonise, a veering into allegory and a lack of plausibility". Future Home of the Living God suffers from all of these at various times.
Get real: Effects of repeated simulation and emotion on the perceived plausibility of future experiences.
I bless their rage against the dark, saluting them as they pass by into a future of prolonged sexual plausibility, while I remain hobbled by my father's midcentury notion of manhood, that any male who spent more than five seconds considering his physical appearance might as well be living in Liberace's guesthouse.
The pathways selected were developed and discussed within the project team iteratively until the purpose of capturing the range of plausibility of global futures was considered to be met.
All in all, the workshop discussions and post-workshop evaluation validated the scenarios, both in terms of their diagnosis of the present situation and dynamics and the plausibility of the futures sketched.
Before determining if the prospect in question is a real opportunity, it is important to conceptualize and visualize the product offering as part of the company's future standard offering and evaluate the plausibility of the product.
Such dismal future prospects have gained an air of plausibility with devastating speed.
The scenarios are intended to provide a range of plausibility on what the real future could be, but their ability to do so depends on the underlying assumptions.
In future work, we plan to explore the plausibility of these effects and their possible relationship to monopolar growth and NETO, and to compare to other models [31].
Mullin also suggests, with chilling plausibility, the ways in which a future Labour PM might face internal resistance from defenders of the status quo very different from those who subverted Perkins, but equally dangerous.
