It'll still be years until the dangerous task of driving is taken out of the hands of clumsy humans, but some huge advances towards a more robot-filled future were made this year.
But we have the Internet now, where everything lasts forever, and thanks to the collective consciousness we call YouTube, the Cockroach Overlords of 3957 will still be laughing at the clever cats and clumsy humans of the early 21st century, just as we in the here and now can still enjoy the holiday specials of TV's own antiquity.
Yet what does the clumsy human outline add to that experience?
"When it comes down to it, I'm quite a loquacious, quirky, clumsy human being".
Like 1942's Mrs. Miniver, in which imbecilic housemaid, Gladys, and her idiot postman beau, Horace, provide the comic relief with a clumsy, barely human, minstrel parody of the proper, upper middle-class relationship at the heart of the film.
"Future Perfect," also commissioned by the Skirball Center, transfers Mr. Elam's own odd physicality to four other dancers (Brynne Billingsley, Jen Harmer, Coco Karol and Luke Wiley) who cavort like children or clowns to a musical mix and do a fine job of conveying the clumsy attempts of human beings to connect to one another.
The comic artist crafts Facebook savvy, one-eyed monsters, clumsy cats (in human clothes) and possibly, but not certainly, morbid scenarios with the perfect dose of bittersweetness.
Something like that -- efficient, immediate transfer of new information directly into our brains -- might happen some day; until then, the speed with which we can acquire new information is constrained by the clumsy evolution of human brains. .
Something like that -- efficient, immediate transfer of new information directly into our brains -- might happen some day; until then, the speed with which we can acquire new information is constrained by the clumsy evolution of human brains.
Don't be clumsy like her human self, because the book explains that when she is a vampire she is more graceful.
The areas in question – the Ross Sea and coastal areas in East Antarctica – are almost untouched by the often-clumsy hands of human progress and give a home to thousands of marine species.
