That the living ever dwell at the frontier of time seems to encourage a fallacious sense that the hour is getting late.
Figure 2 shows the efficiency frontiers for time horizons of 25, and 50 years, compared to the lifetime horizon chosen in the main analysis.
Only 80 or so years after most American workers became entitled to two days off after working Monday through Friday, this last frontier of free time is being increasingly colonized by work.
"We are now ready to move to the next frontier of real time collaborative improvisation – free style rapping, where the hope is that the rapper will be influenced by what Shimon is coming up with and vice versa".
Better luck pushing back the frontiers of ignorance next time around.
Tom Siegfried, the science editor of The Dallas Morning News, doesn't explain just how the poet derived his cosmological theory, but in his new book, "Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time" (Joseph Henry Press), he argues that the history of astrophysics is littered with such "prediscoveries," or "instances of theoretical anticipation".
Deploying innovative data-mining and GIS-mapping techniques to produce a series of customized maps, he illustrates the growth and shifting locations of frontiers over time.
"By exposing bright young minds to developments in areas other than their own -- and giving them lots of time to interact -- Frontiers enables advances in approaches and thinking that would not have occurred otherwise". This year's Frontiers will be held at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., Sept. 24-26.
Over time, the frontiers of the duchy expanded to the west.
It was an exploration of the frontiers of music, freedom, space and time, in sprees of excess both musically and in the hard-living lifestyles of its players.
