Patents began in a world of machines and chemical processes -- a substantial, tangible, nuts-and-bolts world -- but now they have spread across a crucial boundary, into the realm of thought and abstraction.
We no longer live in a world of answering machines and pay phones".
In a world of robotics, where machines control machines, and people wait for the attention of an automated response system, it is wonderful to re-encounter a craftsman or woman.
The monitors above them showed the action on their screens: a race through a world of rocket launchers, machine guns and grenades as their characters made perfect 180 degree flips and hit targets with precision aim.
Certain ideas about the nature of the human being, and optimism about the human future became impossible in a world of poison gas, machine guns, and a shells that could tear a human being in half.
Like Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which also featured a young boy at large in an automated world, Jeunet's poignantly playful film uses self-conscious/aware 3D as a mechanical throwback – a way into a lost world of machines (and situations), the complex workings of which are always on view.
They had no utopian illusions about creating a world of rational, affectless machines.
Hoch looks at her divided and turbulent times through the shattered lens of photomontage: chopping up images from newspapers and magazines, she reassembles them into a dream world of machines and monsters.
It is not meant to replace a gym, but in a world of $3,000 elliptical machines and $150-an-hour personal trainers, it has at least a chance of becoming a global, affordable, mass-market interactive home-fitness system.
But in a world of $3,000 elliptical machines and $150-an-hour personal trainers, it has at least a chance of becoming a global, affordable, mass-market interactive home-fitness system.
