We live in an age in which belief in the virtues of technology is ascendant, everyone and his dog wants to be a dot-com and greed is entertainment.
Technology is ascendant in many ways.
When the Tupolev Tu-95 first appeared in front of Western observers in 1956, it did so amid a revolutionary surge in aviation design; the decade after the end of World War II saw jet technology become ascendant.
The art of reading the body as text was at its peak in the first half of the 20th century, but as technology has become ascendant, bedside skills and the ability to read the text have faded.
The city is booming, and the blistering pace at which Upfront was able to close the fund (from launch to close within two-and-a-half months, according to managing partner, Mark Suster), is just another sign that the technology scene in Los Angeles is ascendant.
In Oakland, he argues, the team has a site with ideal freeway, commuter rail, regional train and even airport access; an opportunity to tap an ascendant economy spurred by the region's technology boom and sharp rise in wealth; and "the greatest fan base, period". "I would ask [owner] Mark Davis to remember his own words," Zelinski said.
Why, for example, diminish climate change when green technology was ascendant or clamp down on immigration when so many firms rely on the global labor market?
Mr. Wood sought out the school after reading Moholy-Nagy's memoir-manifesto-artist's-book "Vision in Motion," which reinforced his sense that art was becoming intertwined with politics and technology and that photography, in particular, was ascendant.
How can they not, in a time when technology and the ever-present Ars Electronica are ascendant?
At a time when the reputations of many top technology analysts are crumbling, Mr. Cohen's star is ascendant.
For now, the technological approach remains in the ascendant.
