Sentences with phrase «like futurist»

But, forgive the momentary cynicism, much like futurist predictions that by 2030 we'll be entirely solar powered no problem (simple, easy) that seemingly overlook entirely inertia inherent in our politics, our economics and ourselves, let alone outright concerted opposition by polluting industries and the politicians profiting from this inertia, this latest UNEP calculation seems a bit simple.

Using examples and real - life stories, David Geurin wants readers to think like a futurist.

Others, like futurist and tech guru Esther Dyson, are having parts of their genomes sequenced in a project led by geneticist George Church of Harvard University and MIT.

With just a little fussing, you'll have voice control over your Plex media collection in no time — you can toss down the remote, and lay lazily on your couch demanding Alexa entertain you with Plex and paging through her suggestions like the futurists of yesteryear could only have dreamed of.

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The trick proposed here is nifty in its own way, but it falls into a classic futurist trap, which is the delusion that the future will be just like today, but with more technology.

Entrepreneur asked leading futurists and cultural anthropologists what this brave new world will be like, how it will evolve and what you need to know to thrive within it.

We are not seeing anything like what evolutionary futurists of the 20th «technological» century expected.

Perhaps you need the doom - and - gloom alarmism of people like anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott of Australia or suburbia - is - dying prophet James Kunstler of the United States before people will respond to the optimism of people like energy futurist Amory Lovins and the late bacterial scholar Lynn Margulis.

The Brooklyn Futurist Meetup is a forum to discuss what the world might look like in ten years plus.

yeah, I like to think that we will end up creating nano - bots that malfunction and end up turning all carbon on Earth into more nano - bots and we end up in the Grey Goo the futurists warn about.

I would like to see church schools become nourishers of dreamers and creators of doers, providing growing minds with the insights of Christian hope and with the empirical data of secular futurists, setting imaginations free to create images of wonderful future worlds that could really be.

Like all revolutionary movements, fascism in power had to restore order and prop up its own authority, diminishing revolutionary ardor; but fascism in its main thrust sought to remake the human world, to forge a new future» whether based on futurist ideas, as with Mussolini, or on an imagined pagan past, as with Hitler» that would break decisively with the corrupt and weak present.

It seems like our logical destiny, according to the futurist Ray Kurzweil.

The world's largest computer chipmaker employs a corporate futurist, Brian David Johnson, to guess what gadgetry and computing will look like in 2020 and beyond

Monitored by the government, the members (Aeon is their best fighter) swallow pills that allow them to travel deep into their bodies (cue whooshing CSI - like into - the - body plunge) and confer with Frances McDormand as a futurist Queen of Diamonds.

«The overall design was art deco with a futurist twist — I started to look at a lot of»30s and»40s, mostly»40s magazines... these inventions they would find... it was almost like «the shape of the world to come».

Afro - futurists will justify any whim, but how can they square the updated James Bond, Star Wars technology of the Wakandan people with the fact that they still live like the natives in Tarzan movies?

Boccioni was leading editor of the famous «Manifesto of Futurist Painters», cooperating with other Futurist artists like Carra, Severini and Russolo.

If Subaru ever puts a car like this into production, expect those details to disappear along with the futurists see - through dash.

It's also all conjecture — as is the future of electronic books, digital ink and any other of the technology scenarios that futurists like to conceive.

(But since we all like to keep score, if it does happen by early 2014 I'd like to apply futurist Ray Kurzweil's rule and call this prediction «essentially correct.»)

Then the Metropolitan Museum's Rosalind McKever archly recounted the scholarly morass that is Futurist sculpture, where the works of heirless artists like Boccioni get cast and copied on a lark, and hyperactive estates like Giacomo Balla's churn out vast quantities of authorized, museum - ready merch.

In other works, colorful, raw orchestrations of short stick - like lines suggest futurist depictions of movement, and in still others, endless lines of indigo bring to mind his signature ballpoint pen work.

From Matisse she turned her attention to Mondrian, whose abstractions taught her «to start with the thing itself», then to Monet's expansive water lilies, then to the Futurists («There's lots I don't like about Futurism... but it was certainly moving towards abstract painting»).

CIMA opened in February with an inaugural exhibition of works by the Futurist artist and graphic designer Fortunato Depero, displayed in a freshly renovated, 4,400 - square - foot SoHo loft that feels more like a pristine private residence than a gallery or museum.

She has noted Sophie Taeuber - Arp's puppets and futurist theater as influences and often uses the form and grammar of the theater — from curtains to the stage — in her own work, including the raised stage - like platform that Crowner has reintroduced at MASS MoCA.

With their oddly indefinable palette and arrangements of circles, stripes, triangles and curves, they often seem more like the work of some long - forgotten Futurist or a 1930s Bauhaus member, rather than one of today's most sought - after contemporary artists.

These works are significant because they stress the importance of the Futurists by emphasising their multidisciplinary interests, which laid the groundwork for later avant - garde movements like Dada.

While he liked much of the exhibition, especially the works by such established names as Goya, Renoir, and Glackens, he found the most radical elements — the European Cubist, Fauvist, and Futurist experiments — awful.

She is interested in the Valdivian Sculptures made from clay and stone between 3000 — 1500 BC, describing them as both ancient and futurist at the same time — much like clay itself.

Influenced by futurists such as Gino Severini, Antonio Corpora, Enrico Prampolini, and Giacomo Balla, he gravitated to painting, but an adversion ofr their marked right - wing views pushed him to alignin himself with left - leaning artists like Renato Guttuso.

This brilliant painter and provocateur was radical in art and life — but like the Italian futurists, was attracted to far - right politics.

Taking on some eighty years» worth of food - related experiments, Feast introduces a broad range of practices, beginning with the Italian Futurists» «Manifesto for Futurist Cooking,» and tracing the line all the way through to contemporary meals, culinary interventions, and community - building dinners by artists and collectives like Michael Rakowitz, Red76, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Theaster Gates, and others.

Ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages, saddle - stitched and printed on varying color stock, the Great Bear pamphlets showcased the work of some of the most innovative writers and artists across the twentieth century: the likes of Jackson Mac Low, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, David Antin and Claes Oldenburg appeared alongside predecessors such as the Italian Futurist composer Luigi Russolo and John Cage's seminal Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse).

Athier's definitive idea of what «futuristic» looked like was strongly fused with the Metaphysical Painting movement, the Futurists and the Memphis movements throughout Europe in the early twentieth century, as well as early visual effects defined by the late 80s and early 90s aesthetic: bright colours and crude grid - based computer animation.

They're hanging in the air like a Marey study of a car in flight, or a Futurist rendering of an object in space.

«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.

Although the artists made diverse statements there were no manifestos like those that Surrealists or Futurists issued.

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It's impossible to make these kinds of predictions through any kind of rational scientific process, and the track record of futurists is about as good as the track record of general prognosticators like Nostradamus.

Can the answer be found in the ideas of a futurist like Ray Kurzweil?

To many of us, much of what Holman said today was what legal futurists like Richard Susskind have been saying for some time.

Stefon and Arely are thinking like technology futurists, which is urgently needed among legal professionals.

Legal futurists like Richard Susskind and Mitch Kowalski have long predicted that value - based billing is the wave of the future for the legal profession — in part because corporate clients are beginning to demand it.

Think about trends that may seem too futurist for you, like AI; does the vendor have a plan to develop in this area?

Intel employs a Futurist (Brian David Johnson), a theorist whose sole job is think about what life will be like for consumers 10 - 15 years in the future and help guide Intel's research and development focus.

Futurist and Google engineer Ray Kurzweil knows this and has recently hypothesized that an intelligent operating system like Samantha is likely to be invented by the end of the next decade.