And they share the hipsters' contempt for respectability; they, too, feel alienated from adult culture (including spelling and grammar), and they, too, value Dionysian sensation as The Greatest and ever strive to Get With It.
Ever since Alan Turing's seminal paper back in 1950 asking whether machines could ever think, scientists have been striving to create machines that can rival our intelligence.
Supplies of Impressionist and modern art are getting thinner all the time, and auction houses are relentlessly striving to squeeze ever higher prices out of potential buyers by hiking estimates and assorted "reserves," below which the auctioneer will not allow the works to sell.
The experiment comes as good news to scientists striving to make ever smaller optical devices, says David Kielpinski, a physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Ever since, scientists have been striving to make left-handed materials that work for shorter-wavelength visible light, either by miniaturizing metamaterials or by exploiting strange electric waves called plasmons, which ripple along nanometer-thick channels of metal (ScienceNOW, 23 March).
This is despite (i) Japan's Softbank injecting its competitive expertise and $5bn into Sprint (third of four nationwide mobile players in the US); (ii) TMUS (fourth of four nationwide mobile players) striving to become an ever more potent competitor.
Movement 3, "" (Besides You is no doctor to be found) is an aria for alto with the obbligato flauto piccolo, which according to Mincham, employs a "figuration ever striving upwards, moderates the underlying sense of potential tragedy".
Mr Darling may still be striving to avoid nationalisation, but his quest looks ever more forlorn.
