But, despite its unquestionable appeal, I now wonder whether the Beijing I saw then exists as current reality or is instead merely a wistful construct, born of the collaborative dreams of populist ideology and essentially sojourning foreign eyes.
Yet with the aplomb of someone who has known since 12 that he was gifted, Mr. Wheeldon is convinced that he can at the same time raise millions of dollars for his dream collaborative of 20 dancers, though new dance companies are usually financially strapped enterprises.
On their first collaborative EP, Internet Dreams, Swick and Douster who hail from Melbourne and Lyon respectively, and have released solo work on labels like Mad Decent, Dim Mak, and Sound Pellegrino have a different idea of what a fantasy borne from the virtual world looks like.
Gore should remember Lincoln's collaborative peroration as he dreams of his own Inaugural Address.
"A collaborative effort would be a dream," she said.
But as a dream that more collaborative days are ahead of us, well, isn't it pretty to think so?
The resulting collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, showcases their strengths – voice and production – but also reimagines familiar styles and modernises them.
But it's possible to dream photo-festooned collaborative creation tools might, especially given that — in startupland — it's been shown time and again that a picture is worth a lot more than a handful of syllables, however pretty.
Recent Harvard graduates Ting Li and Maja Paklar both won the most public votes for their collaborative effort in designing the dream house.
New tools will also increasingly turn a company's customers and suppliers into one large collaborative network.For the moment, dream on.
