Our modern search-engine culture celebrates information gathering and problem solving — ways of thinking associated with orienting and selective focus — but has little patience for the mind's reveries.
Nonetheless, he concludes, by the 21st century "the Village's long period as a bohemian enclave, a magnet for misfits, and an engine of culture had ended, maybe for good".
In its glory days, "The Tonight Show" served as a search engine on culture, letting us know which politician had made a gaffe, which corporate evildoer had been caught doing evil and which starlet had experienced a wardrobe malfunction.
He sees science as the engine of culture that "everything else stems from" and updates Bill Clinton's insight that "it's the economy, stupid!" with his mantra for the future: "It's the science, stupid!" (Fig. 3).
Marietta College, which hosted Peter's visit, is the engine of culture and diversity in Southeastern Ohio and the Mid-Ohio Valley.
I couldn't understand why artists had no idea what the porn industry was like, even when it's this giant engine of culture.
Terrorists and criminals are exploiting the "right to be forgotten" ruling by the European court of justice to airbrush details of their activities and trials from web search engines, the culture secretary, Sajid Javid, has warned.
He calls the neighborhood "a culture engine — a zone that attracts and nurtures creative people, radicals, visionaries, misfits, life adventurers".
The engine of Los Angeles culture is Hollywood, but until quite recently there were few connections between the movie crowd and the Los Angeles art community.
It said the US - which accounts for £7bn of its £15.8bn revenue - was its biggest growth engine: The US culture is open to outsourcing and the current economic climate is resulting in some increased activity.
Our business ties us closely to the engine of popular culture.
