Word: notionalism
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Childhood innocence doesn't crop up much these days in serious fiction. Perhaps Freud is to blame, or maybe William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies dramatized the pre-Romantic notion that young folks deprived of civilization will naturally turn into savages. Even children's books now tend to shun wide-eyed wonder and to feature instead little sophisticates dealing knowingly with various forms of family dysfunction...
...face, the notion seems utterly preposterous: a single technology so incredibly versatile that it can fight disease, stave off aging, clean up toxic waste, boost the world's food supply and build roads, automobiles and skyscrapers--and that's only to start with. Yet that's just what the proponents of nanotechnology claim is going to be possible, maybe even before the century is half over...
HYBRID'S HYBRID Chrysler led the design revolution in the 1990s with streamlined, low-slung road rockets that all but did away with the notion of a hood. For 2025, Bryan Nesbitt, designer of today's PT Cruiser, above, envisions a mix of minivan, sport utility and pickup truck...
...long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about general-interest ones like Salon (or TIME)? Ciao to classical music. So long, Sierra Leone. And goodbye to the quaint notion that readers should care about anything beyond their existing interests. The media of tomorrow will be poised to give you exactly what you want. But you might think twice about whether you really want that...
...brain is so complex and neuroscientific experiments are so difficult to interpret that this whole picture could change in a year. Whatever happens with neurogenesis, the fundamental notion that engrams are made by stringing together neurons--whether new ones or old ones or a combination of the two--is likely to survive in some form...