Sentence examples for linear world from inspiring English sources

Brooks had established a linear world.

When you get to that age, you're in touch with something else that doesn't fit with the linear world in which the rest of us live.

The world he describes is not, as Jen puts it, "a modern, linear world of conflict and rising action, but rather one of harmony and eternal, cyclical action, in which order, ritual and peace are beauty, and events spell, not excitement or progress, but disruption".

Precision medicine may still be early (think 1994 Internet), but we are no longer operating in a linear world.

EEO represents a networking of the linear world of print and scholarship with the meshed, linked, and intersecting pathways of the electronic cloud.

Fractals are a picture of a transition between two worlds -- the orderly linear world and the chaotic non-linear world.

"The guys running these companies grew up in a linear, analogue world and don't necessarily have the DNA and the skill sets to move into the brave new world that's being thrust upon everyone," he said.

John Hagel of Deloitte talked about the growing disconnect between "linear institutions and the non-linear world that is developing around us".Organisations built for this new world may look complex and unwieldy but they have an inner logic and powers of self-organisation.

Yet determination itself is aleatory in a non-linear world where it is impossible to chart causal mechanisms in a situation in which individuals are confronted with an overwhelming flux of images, codes, and models, any of which may shape an individual's thought or behavior.

"We're moving from a linear, local world to a world that is nonlinear and global," says Boy. His advice is to embrace the complexity and connectivity.

The analog world in which today's older generations grew up was primarily linear.