Ms. Uglow has written a playful, exuberant book about figures to whom the new science was itself part play: play that could lead to a vision of society, a steam engine, a fortune or, as with the irrepressible Darwin, plans for a head-shaped talking machine with wooden jaws and leather lips.
He disarms with humor; he disarms with knowledge; but above all he disarms with the insistence that discussion--conversation--should clarify choices and lead to a vision that most of us can share or at least respect.
As the pair control the weather, their argument leads to a vision of nature's chaos.
This initial realization led to a vision of seamless integration between the instrumental acoustic and instrumental electronic worlds.
In "Banknote," consideration of an inert scrap of paper leads to a vision of a vast and frantic system of commerce "turning the gear of custom"; in "Pliers," a simple tool designed to exert control evokes "this despair I feel / When I feel / I've lost my grip, can't manage a thing".
That led to a vision of offering a portfolio of complementary, multilingual services in more than 170 languages.
These shortcomings led to a vision of developing second-generation lignocellulosic bioenergy crops, wherein stems, leaves, and/or husks of plants such as switchgrass, Miscanthus, jatropha, and poplar, may be used for the production of biofuels.
Here, one sees how abstraction can easily lead to a Surrealistic vision.
This methodology should eventually lead to a new vision of the test pyramid with the help of "Predictive Virtual Testing" procedures.
A new organisation of the research system can only lead to a clearer vision of research orientations, improvement in the quality of research by exploiting complementarities, the avoidance of duplication, and finally a better impact on industry for the good health of our society.
Considering that a great deal of energy will be spent in artificial lighting, an improvement in the performance in front of light of the architecture itself could lead to a better vision of the spaces, which depends on the quantity and quality of light available and on the architectural characteristics as well.
