Sentences with phrase «machine age»

It follows The Second Machine Age which was reviewed here and gives a more detailed analysis of how the technological revolution is coming along.

He also promoted the new machine age aesthetic in his writings.

We now find ourselves in a new industrial revolution — the second machine age.

At the same time, he produced compelling images of Machine Age New York for which he is best known: Art Deco skyscrapers, sleek locomotive engines, and majestic power plants.

This rare and tiny perfect little pair of chrome - plated table / boudoir lamps feature an extreme Buck Rogers type Machine Age design, are beautifully made and only measure 6 inches from b...

During her tenure there, she has organized twelve exhibitions, including: «The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse - Lautrec» (2013), «Machine Age Modernism» (2015), «No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts» (2017), and «Picasso Encounters» (2017).

He titled one of his pictures Bird Maddened by Machine Age Noise, and he must have felt that that bird was a kindred spirit.

In the First Machine Age, the Industrial Revolution, technology reinforces human muscle power.

This delightful American Art Deco or Machine Age boudoir lamp is by the S.O.H. Company of Rochester, New York who were a leading US lighting and gift - ware manufacturer between the two W...

A great example of machine age lighting, General Electric, medical, sun lamp, floor lamp is steel construction with a cast iron, rolling, base and adjustable height, articulating sha...

Pair of original Gilbert Rohde for mutual sunset attributed Machine Age Art Deco «Lipstick» lamps Sublime original early American 1930s cylindrical boudoir lamp Design, widely attrib...

Art Deco industrial designer Walter von Nessen is best known for his glamorous Machine Age lighting designs and for his invention of the swing - arm lamp.

Art Deco Louis Rousselet Necklace of a robust Machine Age design.

House of Lavande's treasure trove of vintage gems carrying pieces from 1920's Machine Age Bakelite to Studio 54 - era Lucite and Gold and beyond

By the early 1960s she was mak - ing figurative paintings, drawings and assemblages that combine Pop art's immediacy, industrial techniques and materials, as well as concern for Suzi Gablik's «surrogate world of the mass media,» with the allusiveness of Dada and Surrealist montage — notably Picabia's mechanomorphic figures — Machine Age idealism and the formalism of European modernist abstraction and design.

The New Machine Age promises to surpass the limits of human knowledge, ability and desire.

At the same time that Driggs exhibited her Precisionist machine age works at the Daniel Gallery, she was also creating a series of important plant forms, both in pastel and oil, for the same gallery.

Their works offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age; however, social and environmental issues were left unaddressed.

Consequently, The Second Machine Age suggests that competition will no longer reign supreme.

In the Second Machine Age machines and intelligent software are automating cognitive tasks.

American Art Deco, Machine Age period lamps.

This eccentrically designed pair of American Art Deco / Machine Age bookended chrome plated boudoir lamps feature tubular shades in opaline glass.

Opened two decades ago, Machine Age Modern is a mecca of vintage 20th - century design, specializing in Mid-Century Modern and teak furniture — the likes of which you've surely seen on Mad Men.

They are aged brass, 80s glam, sorta machine age coolness.

After their influential The Second Machine Age, these MIT profs have joined the management - author firmament.

The Clark Art Institute's «Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection» pays special attention to the experimental Linocut movement of the»20s and»30s.

This pair of American Art Deco or Machine Age boudoir lamps are by the S.O.H. Company of Rochester, New York state who were a leading US lighting and gift - ware manufacturer between the...

Thanks to Fundamental Research for arranging the discussion «Drawing in the New Machine Age» this afternoon between Amélie Bouvier and Minye Zhan, moderated by Beatrice De Gelder.

Since their 2014 book, «The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies,» the authors have repeatedly made the following point: The digital era has led to remarkable benefits for business and the economy, but not done enough for people earning middle - and base - level incomes.

Back in the machine age, when a great many workers spent their days on assembly lines, unions fought for a 40 - hour week — and researchers backed them up.

As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014 book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.

This modern scientific revolution — together with its practical consequences in the marvels of the machine age — has been a triumph of reason, probably the major one in all history measured by brilliance and by transforming power.

Before the machine age liberal education was necessarily aristocratic, because only a few could enjoy sufficient leisure to make education for it necessary or desirable.

By the last letter, he is calling for an embrace of the machine age, a mastery of it that preserves human values: «What we need is not less technology but more.

New weapons of the machine age obliterated forests, villages and fields — an entire way of life.

«For all we know,» Eric Hoffer once wrote, «one of the reasons that other civilizations, with all their ingenuity and skill, did not develop a machine age is that they lacked a God whom they could readily turn into an all - powerful engineer.

For has not the mighty Jehovah performed from the beginning of time the feats that our machine age is even now aspiring to achieve?»

This couch is put together so well because it is stitched and crafted by hand, a rarity in today's machine age.

In my latest paper, «Teaching in the Machine Age,» I discuss how innovations that commoditize some element of teacher expertise can also amplify teacher effectiveness.

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

For example, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explain in their book, The Second Machine Age, when factory managers first replaced the steam engines used to power manufacturing equipment with electric motors, the new technology had little impact on productivity.

A new white paper, «Teaching in the Machine Age: How innovation can make bad teachers good and good teachers better,» by Thomas Arnett of the Clayton Christensen Institute uses the theory of disruptive innovation to show why and clarifies the three ways in which technology is set to emerge alongside of teachers.

In «Teaching in the Machine Age,» I describe three ways in which technology can amplify teacher capacity.

In my recent paper, «Teaching in the Machine Age,» I argue that technology, if used properly, can take on some aspects of planning, grading, and instruction, thereby freeing up teachers to spend more of the their time on high - impact activities.

This week's Action Point is: read The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjoflsson and Andrew McAfee.

This system focuses on efficiency and is a by - product of the machine age.