But in a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word, and we have to begin thinking – now! – about how this may be resisted.
I am fiercely proud of the work I've done over the last two years: Shades, about young British Muslims, The Contingency Plan, about climate change, Mixed Up North, about racism in Burnley – each was a valuable step in the right direction of taking on new political themes in theatre.
There was more than a hint of contingency plan about this, as if the outcome at the new stadium had been anticipated, but there was still a magnificent local effort to get a match staged at all.
This study adopts a fitness landscape approach to test contingency hypotheses about the relationship between business strategy, organizational configurations, management accounting systems, and business unit effectiveness.
While some of his teammates fretted before the game about contingencies, Capuano sat quietly in a corner of the clubhouse, thumbing through his iPod.
"At this moment we are talking on diplomatic and humanitarian steps to be taken, but for other scenarios we hope that those things will not be needed, but we need to think about contingencies as well".
As Schaberg puts it, "Distinct aspects of airports (including high demand for entertainment, feelings of 'dead time,' anxieties about contingencies) have anticipated and helped to pave the way for a host of newer experiences that are more about on-demand mediation and information (and capital) flows — and less about human bodies actually going places".
This is obvious enough, even explicit, in the "Ocean's" franchise, since nearly every heist movie — predicated on an elaborate and improbable plan that must be executed perfectly in spite of all kinds of accidents and contingencies — is really about filmmaking.
The theory of implementation intentions, a term coined by the psychologist Peter Gollwitzer, maintains that we have a better chance of sticking to a goal if we think about contingencies in advance and devise a direct, automatic response to each of them.
"We've sat down thinking about contingencies and now is the time to start putting them into action.
