Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, the negative predictions of The Future haven't really come true, either. We're not on pace to have a world run completely by thinking computers. There are no outward indications of an impending apocalypse that many have predicted. Nor are there any serious signs of a second coming...
...history of ideas atop the history of events. There are a couple of implicit morals. The first is that cultures that turned inward, notably China (the breakout star of the show, with an apparent big role in the sequel), have not fared so well as those that were outward looking, even imperialist. The second is that the era's driving force, for good and for ill, is human arrogance. This millennium is a graveyard of eternal empires, authoritative explanations and overreaching ambitions that--like Isaacs'--every so often manage to show us something new under...
...Hata's outward and inward lives are patterned like a trompe l'oeil, one of those tricky designs in which images emerge or recede with changes of perspective. Now a contemporary American suburbia is the focus; now a 1944 Pacific outpost turns the future Bedley Run into background...
...amounts produced have not yet been enough to produce outward symptoms of improvement, but the research marks a significant advance in the search for a cure for the disease. Scientists hope that in the future, a similar treatment will be used in humans...
Dorothy followed her yellow brick road as it spiraled outward toward redemption and homecoming (to the true Kansas of our dreams and possibilities). The road of the newly adopted Kansas curriculum can only spiral inward toward restriction and ignorance...