Word: vision
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...quoted Saffo, who in his decade with the nonprofit Institute for the Future has consulted for everyone from the U.S. Defense Department to a Swedish online service, prefers to distinguish between "visionaries" like Negroponte--"people who have a vision of what the future should be and are trying to make it happen"--and workaday "forecasters" like himself. "My job is to help our clients expand their perceived range of possibilities," Saffo says. Of course, in that capacity, he acknowledges, "you can affect outcomes...
Bill Viola's new series of installations, "Buried Secrets," attempts to deal with issues of communication and miscommunication in a modern world, through manipulation of audibility, visual diffusion of images, juxtaposition of sound and vision and soundless gesture. Though the "message" of each work seems at times overstressed and obvious, ironically this frees the mind to focus on the pure, sensual beauty of the work as a whole...
...gender". To apply such a clinical, stalely academic categorization as the term "gender" to such a luminous, sensually affecting, eerie work is to limit its importance. With "The Veiling" as with "The Hall of Whispers," it becomes clear that the genius in Viola's works are in his vision, not his voice. Even the trite titles of the installations show that his strength is less in his verbal "messages" than in his manipulation of tactile experience...
Watson says the city's universities will have a significant role to play in his vision of community policing...
...book is a haunting and lyrical triumph, one of the few cyberpunk-influenced novels to weave a believable and emotionally involving vision of mankind's cultural and technological future from the reality of the vast Net already developing around us. That's all one can reasonably ask of science fiction: show us new worlds and make us believe our descendants might live there someday...