What we're seeing in 2017 is a vast shift in how we think of media and channel.
The Theodosian code was instituted in the fifth century CE, and represented a vast shift away from the old model of Graeco-Roman polytheism.
For computer and video games as for almost anything else, the Web is a vast, shifting storehouse of information and opinion.
But then again the vast shift of creative effort from paper to the Web may render the fact that some good novels were written during our time irrelevant.
How can this seeming anachronism still command the world's attention, captivate the imagination of the most utilitarian scientists and technologists and cause vast shifts of research funding as officials scramble to follow the Nobel committees' lead?
They are part of the changing face of poverty -- a vast population shift taking place in much of the world, from the joblessness and hunger of the countryside to the comparative wealth of the cities.
They use powers of close observation to integrate the vast shifting amalgam of data that constitute their own particular situation — their own and no other.
Here, exquisite gradations of light gray virtually compel the viewer to study every inch of this alien landscape and to marvel at the tiny resting figures of camels and their riders in a vast expanse of shifting sand.
Because even if there were a shady black market for bull spunk picture toothless men sidling up to people in dive bars, opening their trench coats to reveal row upon row of glimmering spunk vials even if it was possible to shift a vast amount of semen in a legally uncool way, you'd still hold a pint back for the fun of it, wouldn't you?
