Sentences with phrase «utopian future»

Jeff Donaldson made paintings as both positive affirmations of blackness and as microcosmic depictions of utopian futures and dynamic black bodies.

Viewers are invited to bask in a black - light time warp that transports us back to a possible utopian future

And I've begun to wonder, also, if the unspoken concern that lies behind resistance to ebooks among literary - minded people isn't somehow related to this feeling, that the novel is on the cusp of changing irrevocably, becoming something unrecognisable to we who care about it so, and in the traditional capitalist manner: with little to no discussion about what these changes might mean and lots of racing pell - mell toward the ever - retreating utopian future.

E3 2017 was an exciting, tantalising look at new software holding full intention to blow our socks off, new hardware to blast our retinas into a native 4K utopian future.

They discard pre-disaster 21st century norms and rebuild a pathway out of their dystopian nightmare towards a brighter, even utopian future.

The routes indicate current, long - vanished or simply imaginary landmarks, and point to the neighborhood's «collective utopian future.»

Dreaming New Mexico has come up with a range of solutions that solve the existing problems and get the state to this environmentally utopian future.

Speaking of which, have you noticed how most utopian future scenarios (at least, the ones that are thought - out to some degree) posit some final, awful event (such as WWIII in the Star Trek future) that finally, mercifully causes humans to snap out of their small minded selfishness and come together universally to ascent to a more mature society (one might say slightly (only slightly, but that makes a lot of difference!)

But keep that in mind before you get caught up in the cable-less utopian future.

Finally, for VC firms this should be about backing blockchain projects with potential to take the world towards utopian future more than anything else.

But as is often true of utopian futures, this one hasn't gone as planned, and autumn brought us a fresh crop of glum proof.

In her recent work she has taken to reappropriating her own collection of her paintings and drawings into shelters and ripped and reassembled collages, in an attempt to find different uses for art in a possible utopian future.

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

Google is perceived as an essentially philanthropic enterprise — a magical engine presided over by otherworldly visionaries — for creating a utopian future.

It reflects a familiar pattern: the liberal - progressive intellectual who is dissatisfied with the present and longs for a utopian future.

@ John Many Atheists have their views of a Utopian future just as much many Christians do.

The desire of so many people to «stop suffering» now, not in some utopian future, needs to be integrated into theology.

A conservative neither longs for a utopian future nor has an excessive reverence for a past golden age.

In response, some have fearfully predicted that these intelligent machines will dispense with useless humans — mirroring the plot of The Matrix — while others see a utopian future filled with endless leisure.

Back in 1986, futurist K Eric Drexler (now of the Foresight Institute — a US nanotech think tank) imagined a utopian future where self - replicating nanoscale robots, or nanobots, carry out most of the work in society.

They had the option of creating a utopian future (where the issue was solved) or a dystopian future (where the issue gets as bad as possible).

Evan Collins, who manages a popular online archive of Y2K fashion and imagery called «The Institute of Y2K Aesthetics,» says Pantone perfectly captured Y2K's obsession with a tech - utopian future with that choice.

Americans with the knowledge, skills, and adaptability to compete in this newly flattened world can look forward to a utopian future, full of interesting work and a rising standard of living.

But since not all science fiction paints as rosy a picture of the utopian future that the Federation offered, should we be concerned that science fiction has a wonderful habit of becoming science fact?

You might search for sci - fi, but note that other words such as «fantasy», «space opera», «utopian future», or something entirely unexpected shows up.

It's a story of a utopian future gone wrong.

While the first Bakelite appeared in the early 1900's, plastic was considered a modern material and an essential product of the utopian future envisioned in post-World War II America.

Issues of racial identity, time and space, and a utopian future take shape in the twisted visions of some of today's most imaginative contemporary artists.

This exhibition brings together four artists who, in a variety of ways, display an interest in subverted or obsolete modernity, referencing technology, architecture and design that offer up optimistic promises of a utopian future.

His works across media — which evoke a pop sensibility in contrast to their grim titles, such as They Endorsed Collective Failure as the Dawn of a New Renaissance and The Bitterness of What Could Have Happened and What Ended Up Happening — speak to our collective ambition for a utopian future and the inherent failure of this human aspiration.

Pro sport is one token of a utopian future, where people don't just get to play but play as if it's life's main activity: where play and work elide.