Ultimately, AIs will dematerialize, demonetize and democratize all of these services, dramatically improving the quality of life for 8 billion people, pushing us closer towards a world of abundance.
To say that real, big things should be considered as metaphors shows some doubt in their realness, a will to dematerialize; the moment a thing becomes a mere figure of speech, its bright noon is past.
The intended effect is that the paintings will seem dematerialized, to exist as pure, disembodied images.
In fact, the drill has been used so extensively that it almost dematerializes the vault, I think, in a very interesting way, creating a kind of overall tapestry of dark and light.
"He said, 'Watch the coin,' and it started to develop a silver color instead of copper, and then the silver became bluish and the penny was getting quite fuzzy, out of focus, blurred, and then it simply was gone -- it slowly dematerialized".
Still, the sign is visually stunning, like an IMAX screen in the middle of a Manhattan street, and it all but dematerializes the façade, turning it from an object of glass and metal into a cavalcade of constantly changing colors and shapes.
This paper argues that unlike the AACR, FRBR lays bare its own ideological underpinnings, and in so doing, it dematerializes the text and mystifies the creative process.
In an attempt to escape, the Doctor and Avery board the TARDIS, but find it is acting haphazardly, and are forced to evacuate, and they watch as it dematerializes by itself.
But the vanity of Iñárritu's style, its conspicuous striving after effect, achieves the opposite result — it dematerializes the production and disembodies the performances, calls attention not to the rigors of the shoot but to the extraordinary care and handling, the extraordinary industrial equipment, that went into maintaining the actors and their well-being in inhospitable conditions.
But more than that, it is also dematerializing (read: eliminating) the need for central banks, lawyers and currency exchanges.
