OVER the last decade, business incubators — open-office-plan hives where people, many of them young, gather to try to think up the next big app or social media revolution — have grown into a cultural phenomenon, a vision of capitalism as a kind of share-happy, postmillennial commune.
There are trillions upon trillions of bytes out there in the ether — so much to gather and to think about.
But on the other hand, they have such lovely rhythm and language, and I think you could read them again and again, and gather things to think about each time.
Even though he yelled those words at the gang of kids gathered to watch him, I thought he was yelling at me.
As University of Aarhus's Vandkilde puts it: "It's an army like the one described in Homeric epics, made up of smaller war bands that gathered to sack Troy"—an event thought to have happened fewer than 100 years later, in 1184 B.C.E.
It's important that the word is still used because it doesn't mean a play performed onstage, but a place where people gather to see and think about something.
Last week, as Midnight Madness showcased college basketball players with visions of massive wealth and self-indulgence written all over their faces, 113 high school and college students gathered in Des Moines, Iowa to think about how they can change the world.
"Now, when we are all in a state of shock after the killing spree in the Charlie Hebdo offices, it is the right moment to gather the courage to think".
This time of year families gather to celebrate holiday traditions, think about the year ahead and remember the years gone by.
They would learn to gather information, to write, to think and to use tech.
