There are high-tech elements in these productions, but they always serve the plays' vision of shifting power.
Actually, in many ways, even with all the high-tech elements, Mr. Lepage's production is fairly traditional.
He calls the space, as yet unoccupied, "a little kooky," with 17-foot ceilings discovered during the renovation, fireplaces, Carrara marble floors and refurbished executive offices juxtaposed with high-tech elements.
Originally, Mr. Corker and Mr. Hoeven were considering a provision that would have required a 90 percent effectiveness rate in apprehending or turning back illegal crossers, using a combination of conventional border infrastructure, like fencing and observation towers, and high-tech elements including heat-sensing cameras and drones.
Besides maintaining structural integrity of its submersible under millions of pounds of pressure, there are many high-tech elements that go into a deep ocean expedition.
The A1 small car his studios are planning now, he said, will accommodate many of the high tech elements of the A8 luxury sedan a car with considerable dashboard real estate devoted to its telematics display screen that won the Eyes on Design award here for the best new production car.
He brought in many signature high-tech and surrealist elements, like an enormous LED screen backdrop (cue the flying doves and celestial imagery), floating lampposts and trapezes.
Two developers, Kevin Rafferty and Robert Coltrin, had devised an idea for a new California Adventure ride that would juxtapose the old-fashioned romance of a carnival midway with high-tech video game elements.
"If you can build a good platform made up of high-tech, high-quality elements and you then produce, oh, five vehicles on that platform, you are going to save a lot of money," says Folz. "But the difference really shows when you are coming up with new models".
