Instead of a futuristic propulsion system, the "nanocraft" will "leave their fuel behind," Milner told a press conference in New York City this afternoon.
It makes you wonder if Amazon would get a bunch of marriage proposals if Alexa looked like a pre-pubescent cartoon with chipmunk eyes instead of a futuristic coffee can.
Soldiers appear more human, instead of looking like some futuristic, cyber-mutant Marine.
The toll system, which could have been fairly straightforward -- think of E-ZPass on the George Washington Bridge -- is instead a futuristic network of global positioning satellites and wireless transmitters.
It opts to ditch 'Buck Rogers' visions of futuristic war, and instead to imagine counterinsurgency operations, grimly referred to as 'wars of exhaustion,' in one, two, many Afghanistans to the distant horizon".
Instead, both have trotted out laundry lists of futuristic alternative-energy programs.
Instead of strapping your feet into ugly-futuristic-looking plastic skates, you strap these ugly-futuristic-looking plastic skates onto your shoes, and then apparently scoot off.
Maybe it was a longing for the entrepreneurial life that might have been, had he only marketed his inventions, including an electronic leash for dogs, a translucent ring for toilet bowls, a super-efficient kitchen knife and futuristic dishwashing gloves, instead of letting them lie in his safe for the last 25 years.
Sort of like a futuristic story where instead of killing each other with guns, they do just the opposite.
We hear, instead, of schemes like Palava City, a nominally futuristic vision of digital technology minutely interwoven into the texture of everday urban life.
