futuristic

Zoox’s vehicle design, like its name, is decidedly futuristic.

Councillor Stephen Bennett said it might "sound far-fetched or futuristic" but the robots had "already had a significant real-life impact".

The site had been cleared for a public housing development called Elysian Park Heights, and O’Malley hired Emil Praeger — a New York engineer who had designed piers, bridges and even a breakwater used during the Allied invasion of Normandy — to create a futuristic stadium that looked resolutely forward, true to the spirit of its time.

“I’m attracted to the futuristic feel from the past,” he says.

Some felt it was a bit too futuristic, while others, like 70-year-old Agrella, embraced the technological advancements the arena of the future had to offer, especially facial recognition.