Despite Orwell's misgivings, at Nuremberg our civilization designed a vehicle to anathemize men imbued with evil.
Life as we know it tends to spread wherever it can, and Bostrom estimates that, if an alien civilization could design space probes capable of travelling at even one per cent of the speed of light, the entire Milky Way could be colonized in twenty million years — a tiny fraction of the age difference between Kepler 452b and Earth.
"It really is a backup of civilization that's designed to last for millions of years, and to do that effectively we have to have replication just like a large server farm would," Spivack said.
In the ancient world, a city was viewed as a place that fostered civilization by being "properly designed, ordered, and adorned".
The popular series of computer games notwithstanding, civilizations do not emerge because people sit down and say "let's design a great civilization".
Being one of the first professions humanity obtained in the groove of civilization, architecture is a residence designing work in simplest definition.
Although the desire to create a pleasant environment is as old as civilization itself, the field of interior design is relatively new.
F.D.R.: "We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization".
According to Gingrich, Park51 is "an assertion of Islamist triumphalism," part of "an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization".
The challenge of modern civilization is to enable mentally ill persons conducting designed and productive lives and enjoy the benefits offered by social environment.
