"imaginary future" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
Example sentence: I like to write stories that explore the imaginary future of mankind.
The impulse to explore an imaginary future is born partly of necessity.
Dreadful mistakes are made for the sake of safeguarding a problematic, an imaginary future.
In book after book, he returned to an amazingly detailed imaginary future.
Meanwhile, Tilly's short chapters, narrated from an imaginary future, further test the reader's preconceptions.
He buys their imaginary future child a fluffy pink coat as they stroll through a picturesque Portuguese fishing village.
He set his second novel, "Barbary Shore," from 1951, in Brooklyn — in what he called "an imaginary future".
As it happens, the master of imaginary futures, Jules Verne, already proposed a hydrogen-powered world back in the eighteen-seventies.
I'm not sure what that amounts to – he seems to flirt with notions of reincarnation and a kind of transcendental consciousness – but it allows him to flow freely into imaginary futures and pasts, which is highly pleasurable for the reader.
«Futures literacy», a concept introduced by Miller [2], calls for a powerful blend of methods and ways of inventing imaginary futures, including the development of hybrid approaches.
I've missed multitudes of things about imaginary futures.
No matter what, follow what feels good, not what looks good (i.e. pretty faces, imaginary futures, fame and fortune).
