It's as if, in this country whose relatively robust economy has underwritten many forward-thinking projects, every mayor here has to have enormous architectural and infrastructural plans, or risk coming across as small-minded or an outsider.
Their most forward-thinking projects included multimedia architecture: installations that used still and moving image, as with their seven-screen film Glimpses Of The USA, originally shown in 1959 in a Buckminster Fuller dome in Moscow as part of the first USA-USSR cultural exchange.
An inauspicious start for Project Gutenberg, one of the most forward-thinking projects in the history of technology.
As bringing Western toilets to underserved communities can be expensive, Gates believes forward-thinking projects like the Omniprocessor can play a role in connecting more people with drinking water.
Deconstructivism abandons strict architectural constructs in exchange for supremely forward-thinking projects, setting aside common concerns like structure, envelope, purity of form, and the universal design mantra that form follows function.
Innovative digital art collective teamLab has produced a multitude of forward-thinking projects in today's Japanese art ecosystem, including such eye-widening works as a projection mapped water simulations and a world of glowing, musical orbs.
Dialogue is very excited about being involved in such a forward thinking project, as we pride ourselves on our innovative attitude in the mobile market and 2shop4 most certainly is that.
Among the forward-thinking digital projects of the computing silver age was the Domesday Project, which aimed to preserve mid-eighties life in the UK by means of digitizing slide photos and text describing day-to-day life.
"The Music Gallery already has healthy public support, but I'm sure that some of the money will make its way back to us in the form of projects which come our way," says the gallery's artistic director David Dacks, adding that he hopes the increased CCA funding will enable more forward-thinking interdisciplinary projects.
Here's a forward-thinking public art project that we can really get behind: the Lunar Cubit is an energy-generating installation that could power not just its own illuminated surface, but as many as 250 nearby homes as well.
It's about applying to politics, and self-governance, the same sort of distributed wisdom frameworks that forward-thinking businesses, scientific research projects, and other enterprises are thriving with in the digital era.
