Essays may be playful; they may elaborate visions of worlds quite different from our own; they may be lyrical in tone or narrative in structure; they may use techniques from other disciplines such as literary theory, journalism, history, or linguistics; they may pose many questions none of which have clear answers; they may do several of these things or none at all.
Following this line of reasoning, we can elaborate our vision (chapter Vision of future software organizations) consequently as follows.
My boss found me in a conference room, collapsed over an elaborate vision board.
Dr. Salla's world is notable not only for its elaborate vision and core murder mystery but also for its subtlety.
Even before the economic implosion, Brushstroke, David Bouley's elaborate vision of a robata grill paired with a kaiseki restaurant, was hampered with troubles, including a battle to get its liquor license.
Many people regard the 1982 "Blade Runner," directed by Ridley Scott, as a masterpiece, and Dick, who saw the film shortly before he died, admired its elaborate vision of a corroded future cityscape.
Switching between a narrative of Dave's unlucky life and the phonetically rendered "Mokni" speech of his wretched followers, Self achieves an elaborate vision of vicious superstition and hopeless struggle, but his insights never quite repay the effort of engaging with his stylistic pyrotechnics.
Musk's elaborate vision may have attracted plenty of media attention and Silicon Valley funding, but it also highlights society's tendency to get caught up with new transportation technologies, instead of the less exciting but perhaps more workable solutions - some of which may already exist.
A more elaborate vision, one that is not very useful today because of lack of enough data and enough science, is defined in Experimental Man and websites like Quantified Self.
