People are more comfortable if there are combinations of old and new, serious and funky".
Even though he did not succeed in writing this history, his effort was influential because he devised new combinations of old ideas and invented totally new ones.
With convergence -- the buzzword for the eventual union of the TV set and the PC -- still seemingly as far off as a live Olympics on NBC, consumers are being offered various combinations of old- and new-media content.
He cites other experimental projects like Apartamento, a shelter journal from Milan, and Fire & Knives, a food quarterly from London, as "examples of titles re-examining longstanding genres with combinations of old and new approaches".
With male artists in particular (see also Roth and Bellow), it seems that a certain amount of turnover and betrayal is inevitable: as if the life must be churned up periodically to get the juices going, to flush out the old and bring up new material, new combinations of old themes.
When faced with sophisticated air defences that could shoot large numbers of Predators down, the relative cost of maintaining a UAV fleet would rise.In practice, however, the future of warfare may lie with ever more ingenious combinations of old and new, costly and cheap.
