Like all science-fictional utopias, "On a Sunbeam" feels imperfect, even (to quote Ursula K. Le Guin) "ambiguous". But it also feels magnificent: it's a world in which many readers would want to live, and a way to envision solutions to real-life problems that seem intractable now.
At Duke we believe that the training that can best prepare our students for meaningful lives is an education that is engaged with the realities of our time, envisioning solutions to real-world problems.
More focus on our shared aspirations might allow us to envision solutions to some of these problems.
But with politicians and lawmakers often unreliable, who is there to guide us down the correct path, to help us envision solutions to the world's problems when we can't see them for ourselves?
Robert Sellar, head of American equities at Aberdeen Asset Management, said he envisioned a solution to the crisis, but real estate brokers would not like it.
Samuels, who is also the Director of the Center for International Studies, recognized that this type of isolation posed a risk to MIT's ability to maintain its global leadership, and envisioned a solution — a new initiative that would rigorously prepare MIT students to operate at the highest professional levels in Japan.
For Google Chrome's April Fools' Day prank, the team envisioned a solution to just that problem.
When founding BiddingForGood, I envisioned a solution for fundraisers to tap household discretionary spending and the e-commerce economy via online auctions.
