1940, Edward Roberts Barnsley, Agricultural Societies of Bucks County, PA, Bucks County Historical Society, pages 1–2:
Today we are apt to think of a fair as a mileless potpourri of trylons and flood-lighted futuramas, but in the yesterdays of our greatgrandfathers, a fair meant a cattle show, or exhibition of prize live stock usually followed by the sale thereof, with the accessory entertainment being kept more or less in the background.
1941, Otis Ferguson, in: The New Republic CIV, page 21/1:
As a whole, the picture is devastating in its proof that even the tough established past can be as barren a land for the story of men and their real work and women, their indomitable brief victory over oblivion, as the pastry futuramas of any H. G. Wells.
Under these circumstances, it is no surprise that the public lately has been treated in word and print to futuramas of air commerce showing winged leviathans, flying box-cars, trains of mammoth gliders and immense helicopters filling the heavens.
1980, Jascha Frederick Kessler, in: New Lugano Review III, page 32:
And suddenly there it was: the zip code stamped on the envelope! Flushing Meadows, in Queens. I’d never replied to that horrible farewell statement of hers; nevertheless, I thought she would use a post office box for protection, that it would be in the station near the park that had been the site of the great New York World’s Fair of my childhood, erected on top of the garbage dumps that had filled the swamps of old, making marvelous futuramas out of the midden of the present.
1986, William J. Haugen Light, Psychodynamics of Alcoholism: A Current Synthesis, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Limited, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 98:
The players and boundaries have been of different colors in terms of black and white and I do not intend that the futuramas of supersonic fixtures will ever be in my life again because I believe that all known factors that would have its effect on me even the chemical reaction of ameno [sic] acids as they are in the process of combustronability are known to me.
2006, Roger Carswell, Where Is God in a Messed-up World?, Inter-Varsity Press (2009), →ISBN, chapter 6: “The World as It Will Be”, page 61:
John was imprisoned for his faith in Christ on the island of Patmos in the Mediterranean Sea. On this desolate island, surrounded by the surging sea, it is as if God pulled back a curtain to give John a glimpse of eternity. The book of Revelation, which describes this, has to be the greatest futurama of all time.
2007, Robert Levit and Evonne Levy, “Design Will Save the World! On Bruce Mau’s Massive Change and the Mediatization of Culture”, chapter 12 in: William S. Saunders (editor), The New Architectural Pragmatism (Harvard Design Magazine Readers 5), →ISBN (hardback, 10), →ISBN (hardback, 13), →ISBN (paperback, 10), →ISBN (paperback, 13), page 162:
With its emphasis on technology, its ebullient optimism, and boundless claims for design’s responsibility and power, MC is a cross between a world’s fair, a futurama, and a technology expo.
