Standardization was a key element of visions of the future long before the 1960s.
"Is the Space Station Necessary?" (editorial, Aug. 14) recommends that we abandon the first two elements of the vision.
He just arranges the elements of the vision — majesty, terror (bullets, blood), beauty, enigma — in a shining constellation.
There are elements of this vision woven into the Ryan budget — cuts to farm subsidies, means-testing for Medicare, and promises to go after tax expenditures that primarily benefit the rich.
In the absence of a performance space vast enough to present such an extravaganza -- and, perhaps, suspecting that audiences would rather watch a Passion play than be in one -- Mr. Moran took all the elements of that vision and reconfigured them as a theater piece.
Still, the image of a rural Eden is a persistent one in Western culture, whatever the philosophy behind it, and there are elements of this vision even in D.H. Lawrence's Rainbow (1915) and, however improbable this may seem, in his Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).
Research is needed to make the concepts, components, and elements of the vision meaningful and applicable at different levels of application.
In general research is needed to make concepts and elements of the vision meaningful and feasible for different level of application.
The expert group engaged into some sort of retrospective thinking (from today back to the 1990s) and backcasting (from 2030+ back till today) when discussing elements of a vision for the 2030+.
The latter policy change would pave the way for many other policy initiatives, since through reducing labour costs it would make many other elements of the vision more feasible (e.g. repair, reuse and recycling).
