Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road" contains a vision of a future in which just about the only food left is canned, from happier times; when the cans run out, the humans eat one another.
Writing about "Sacred Hunger" in The New York Times Book Review this year, the novelist John Vernon said: "The novel contains a vision of hell on earth unlike any in contemporary fiction, largely because its account of the unimaginable cruelties of the slave trade is told in the well-wrought prose of an old-fashioned 19th-century novel with an omniscient narrator.
The novel contains a vision of hell on earth unlike any in contemporary fiction, largely because its account of the unimaginable cruelties of the slave trade is told in the well-wrought prose of an old-fashioned 19th-century novel with an omniscient narrator.
Last month he fleshed his thinking out further, publishing a future of healthcare policy document containing a vision for transforming how the NHS operates — to plug in what he called "healthtech" apps and services, to support tech-enabled "preventative, predictive and personalised care".
It also contains a vision for the future," said UNICEF Representative in Syria Sherazade Boualia.
With regard to the HUI 3, which contains a vision domain, this was considered to better reflect the visual functioning impact; with a mean utility value of 0.34 (standard deviation = 0.28) it had a larger and more significant correlation with tests of visual function than the other preference-based measures.
In Experiment 2, a similar design was used except that during the stimulus presentation, one interval contained a unimodal (vision or touch) stimulus, the other interval a bimodal stimulus presentation.
The planning document contained a series of visions and objectives as well as the nominated action group responsible for actioning each of them.
The declaration, passed by a UN general assembly resolution in 2000, contains a comprehensive vision of development underpinned by human rights, and is the source document of the MDGs.
That text contains a prophetic vision similar to those found in the sacred scripture, which do not describe with photographic clarity the details of future events, but rather synthesize and condense against a unified background events spread out over time in a succession and a duration which are not specified.
