futurism

  1. Noun.  An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions. Originated by F.T. Marinetti, among others.
  2. Noun.  The study and prediction of possible futures.

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