Sentences with phrase «of machine age»

Along with industrial - design visionaries of the period like Raymond Loewy, Gilbert Rohde and Donald Deskey, von Nessen crafted a style that was emblematic of the Machine Age.

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...

Characterized by competition and scarcity, the first half of the machine age was a winner - take - all approach to success and achievement.

In the authors» view, the first half of the machine age (from the advent of the steam engine until 2006) was a journey of human progress in a predictable linear line.

William Faulkner, bane of every English student forced to read DWMs until they cry MEGO, had this to say about automobiles in his minor novel Pylon, «a dark and pessimistic novel, one that looks at the uncertainty of American society created by the dehumanizing effects of the machine age.»

Looking at the world with a more politico - historical focus, Boccioni's Futurist - style Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913, Museum of Modern Art, New York) epitomizes the movement and dynamism of the machine age.

While working in this mode, he produced powerful images of the Machine Age: skyscrapers, factories, and locomotive engines.

While working in this mode, he produced powerful and compelling images of the Machine Age: skyscrapers, factories, and power plants, images that established his reputation as a leading figure in American art.

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.

The birth of a machine age which had made major changes in the conditions of daily life in the 19th century now had radically changed the nature of warfare.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

During a fireside chat with the group's CEO, Michael Beckerman, Bezos said we are currently in the «golden age» of machine learning.

When Jennings showed up in March 1945, at age 20, there were approximately 70 women at Penn working on desktop adding machines and scribbling numbers on huge sheets of paper.

You might recall that I just predicted that we are on the cusp of an age of Uberization, where underutilized assets of all kinds will become revenue - generating machines in 2016.

Four years earlier, at the age of 26, he had been named superintendent of the machining division of Harvester's Melrose Park, Ill., plant.

'' [Machines are] always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip - and - fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,» Puzder told Business Insider of potential benefits of automation in March.

The hotshot «dealaholic» selling machine, who got his first taste of sales success at the age of seven selling a record - breaking number of books and Christmas calendars door to door in his native Stockholm, returned to the City That Never Sleeps at 25 determined to make it big.

I installed it on several machines, including an aging laptop with a Via graphics controller that's notorious for making a hash of things in Linux.

This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you're a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine.

In his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines, Kurzweil foresaw things like the internet's fast and widespread adoption, wearable devices, the cloud, and the ability of artificial intelligence to beat the world's best chess players by 2000.

Some experts, such as Ray Kurzweil in his book The Age of Intelligent Machines, first published in the late 1980s, got it spectacularly right.

He said this: «Ours is the age of miraculous writing machines but not of miraculous writing.

Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott O'Reilly, 281 pages, $ 22.99 As Francis Crick (he of Watson and Crick) put it, «You're nothing but a pack of neurons.»

Jeffrey Sachs isn't Ray Kurzweil (author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and prophet of a technological immortality).

Generations ago, G. K. Chesterton was promoting the gospel to an industrial age that conceived of the world as a self - sustaining machine.

And this idea of a great machine is one of the great misconceptions of our age, haunting the biologist now as it haunted the thinkers of the nineteenth century when Tennyson wrote, «The stars, she whispers, blindly run.»

For simple machines like a bicycle we also find the earliest stages of an explanation, which can be classified as mechanical and which looks away from a self - propelled movement and switches over to external influences; from seven to eight years of age the child is, in the realm of mechanical things, capable of understanding movements in function of transmissions (RME 221 - 266).

The Spiritual Age of Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence.

«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?»

In an age of machine mass production of identical items, individuality is in danger.

In a machine dominated age we tend to scrutinize the natural world for patterns that we are familiar with from observing the products of engineering and cybernetics.

Craft South is also Nashville's first exclusive Janome Sewing Machine delaership which is supported by an open sewing & crafting studio with a full calender of creative workshops for all ages.

You and your child ages 3 - 5 can learn about flying machines of the past and create your own kite to send skyward at this engaging activity at the North Carolina Museum of History.

Luckily, in this day and age, we have machines to do most of the hard work for us.

In a report to be released on Tuesday, a group of 300 retired military officers said school - age children are eating 400 billion excess calories a year - the equivalent of 2 billion candy bars - from junk food sold in such machines as well as in snack bars and cafeterias that should be off - limits.

Between the ages of 8 - 10, most kids mature enough to have full responsibility of loading the washing machine and dryer as well as cleaning the washing machine or cleaning the dryer.

Machine washable, it holds newborns (from 8 pounds) to 3 years of age.

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

Katherine Ludwig, co-author of Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age, shares what we know about the changing nature of work and how it will impact today's kids.

Your body is an awesome machine that will make milk for as long as your child nurses and your body will tailor that breastmilk to the needs of your growing child at every age.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

At about the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo began his «State of the State» speech on Wednesday, a middle - aged woman walked away from a slot machine called Great Wall in the new gambling hall adjoining Aqueduct racetrack.

«Machine learning tools are really coming of age and starting to see applications in a lot of scientific domains,» said Adams.

Using a functional MRI machine, or fMRI, the researchers scanned the brains of 42 people with OCD, ages 18 to 60, before and after four weeks of intensive, daily cognitive behavioral therapy.

THE computer age dawned before this magazine launched, but New Scientist has been around for long enough to capture the machines» ever - accelerating evolution and their infiltration of our daily lives.

Dripping with Freudian innuendo, the advertisement seems mired in a bygone age — the 1950s, perhaps — when men took charge of machines, women wore (and were) fluff, and smoking was sophisticated.

«Fast aging and time machine: Genome of the Turquoise killifish sequenced.»