Word: plant
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...audiences of all ages because it stars the most adorable little trash-bot ever. He's less a trash collector than a trash connoisseur, adding new items to the treasures he keeps on shelves in the shack he has built for himself. Hmmm, what about this green thing, a plant sprout, that he found in his foraging? That goes into an old shoe...
...WALL?E is clunky. When he sits next to her on a bench at sunset (he must also have seen Woody Allen's Manhattan) and tries to hold her sort-of hand, EVE rejects him. It's nothing personal; it's just that she has been programmed to find plant life on Earth. And in a shoe at home, lucky WALL?E has what she's looking...
...plant gets the two of them a trip to the Axiom, a kind of permanent cruise ship on which an army of droids tends to the exiled humans' every need--every need but exercise, for either body or mind. "Because the ship is totally automated," Stanton says, "the inhabitants have lost their need to know anything." The Axiom is Stanton's futurist nightmare vision of the modern home computer that is our work, shop and play station. After centuries of digital reliance, he says, "We'd turn into big babies that haven't grown up, that have lost the need...
...things that confuse human beings, perhaps nothing trips us up so much as what it means for something to be simple or complex. A houseplant, with its microhydraulics, fine-tuned metabolism and dense schematic of nucleic acids, may be more complex than a manufacturing plant. A modern army, with its thicket of bureaucracy and static encampments, may be simpler than a nimble guerrilla group. A guppy, with its symphony of biological systems and subsystems, is vastly more complicated than a star...
...crucial ingredient. By 2025, two-thirds of the global population will face water shortages due to climate change, urbanization and population growth, according to a recent JP Morgan report. Marc Levinson, lead author of the report, says businesses that don't address looming shortages run the risk of plant closures, water rationing and sullied reputations. "There's a major risk of being punished by customers," he says. "These are real business risks. This is not something far off in the future...