Word: futuristically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living room, why should anyone have to go to work in an office at all? The question can bring a stab of hope to anybody who spends hours every day on the San Diego Freeway or the Long Island Rail Road. Nor is "telecommuting" as unrealistic as it sounds. Futurist Jack Nilles of the University of Southern California has estimated that any home computer cardio-would soon pay for itself from savings in commuting expenses and in city office rentals...
...early '80s, revivalism tempered by well-placed clues of irony. It is chic, like a Fendi fur with metaphysical yearnings. Chia can run up a good-looking, hyperactive surface-all those squiggles out of Cy Twombly and the flecks of color applied in an ornamental parody of futurist "divisionism" are cute as kittens. And his parodical reach is so broad as to disarm hostility...
...condition also beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and aching backs of these regiments of expectant mothers. The party may even continue into the night. Frenetic Futurist Alvin Toffler believes that only a lack of medical technology binds women to the end of fertility. He writes: "Once child bearing is broken away from its biological base, nothing more than tradition suggests having children at an early age." The pregnancies of the future may be delayed until retirement...
Agenda items for the meeting start with SRI's field staff, which constantly scours magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals for articles pointing toward social and economic change ahead. Some of the journals can be found on almost any newsstand, but others are more obscure. Examples: Futurist, a bimonthly published by the World Future Society, and the Hastings Center Report, which examines issues concerning ethics and the natural sciences. A week before TEAM met in Menlo Park, summaries of 88 articles were distributed to the group's members. Subjects in last week's packet of clippings ranged from...
...British Science Writer Dougal Dixon. A student of both geology and paleontology, Dixon has taken a careful look at the question and come up with more serious predictions, based on genetics and the course of evolution to date. The creatures that populate Dixon's futurist world in After Man: A Zoology of the Future (St. Martin's Press; $14.95) are variously amusing or appalling. But they are perfectly logical...