distant future

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The findings also raise questions about the distant future of our own solar system.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

It’s impossible to rule out a distant future “where everything is all based off the same kind of technology,” he added.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

It sounds like something from the distant future, but nanotechnology - engineering at a scale of millionths of a millimetre - is already used in lots of everyday real-life tech.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

And when the production falls somewhere between RedOne productions and Plan B deep cuts, that world becomes a post-cultural, hazy pop dystopia of both the past and a far-off, distant future.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

The options market also tended to presuppose that the distant future would look more like the present than it usually did.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis