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Futmalls

Futmalls is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Futmalls rather than just read about it. In short: Futmalls (Chinese: 預支未來) also known as Futmalls.com is a 2020 Taiwanese science fiction series by director Lai Chun-yu. Filming was completed on August 30, 2019, and it premiered on Youku on December 3, 2020.

Key takeaways

Futmalls belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Futmalls to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Futmalls from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Futmalls (Chinese: 預支未來) also known as Futmalls.com is a 2020 Taiwanese science fiction series by director Lai Chun-yu. Filming was completed on August 30, 2019, and it premiered on Youku on December 3, 2020. The show is co-produced by mm2 Entertainment.

Synopsis "Futmalls.com" (original title: "Future Malls", or Advance the Future in its Chinese name) is a 2020 science fiction drama series. It is directed by Lai Chun-yu. The series is about three different stories that are connected to the website futmalls.com. Investigation into a series of strange cases leads police officer Zhao Xu-zhen to a mysterious website called "Futmalls.com," which claims to be from the future. There, customers can buy anything from the future from the site, including future love, fame and beauty. Futmalls is a mysterious shopping site, with an unlinkable URL where users are presumably randomly selected.

Cast

Main Bryan Shu-hao Chang as Zhao Xu-zhen Eugenie Liu as Yang Nian-jun Bruce Hung as Li Zhong-wei Shao Yu-wei as Bai Yong-xin

Recurring Allison Lin as Bai Yong-li River Huang as Liu Xiang-da Wu Chien-ho as Zhan Guo-xiang / Fu Chen-guang Phoebe Huang as Jiang Mei-zhen Chu Chung-heng as Chen Guan-ting Hu Wei-jie as Guo You-yi Lin Tzu-xi as An Zheng-mei Ban Tieh-hsiang as Uncle Fu Ting Chun-cheng as Zhuang Yun Wang Ko-yuan as Chen Kai-xiang

Special guest Heaven Hai as chief editor Deng An-ning as commander Liu Shi-min as Mr. Yang, Nian-jun's father Lai Pei-hsia as Mrs. Yang, Nian-jun's mother Yang Da-jing as ceremony host

Episodes

Season 1 (2020)

References

External links Futmalls on Netflix Futmalls at IMDb Futmalls at Douban (in Chinese) Futmalls on myVideo (in Chinese) Futmalls on Youku (in Chinese)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Futmalls

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Futmalls claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Futmalls before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Futmalls ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Futmalls

In research: Futmalls appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Futmalls in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Futmalls is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020 Taiwanese television series debuts, 2020 Taiwanese television series endings, 2020s anthology television series, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Futmalls outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Futmalls in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Futmalls means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Futmalls out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Futmalls in simple terms?

Why does Futmalls matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Futmalls?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Futmalls.