James and her team have chosen a different take on the "crowd funding" idea that was successfully employed by the makers of Age of Stupid.
The current generation of policy makers came of age in the 1970s, when a higher tolerance for inflation did not deliver the promised benefits.
VARIETY is the spice of life, though not if you are the maker of an ageing internet browser maker losing ground to your younger, nimbler competitors.
In its infancy, for example, you'd never guess that YouTube would become the leading star-maker of the age.
The Web offers a platform where makers of any age can test drive creative solutions, get feedback, and improve on ideas.
If you could enter into the mindset of one of the great established American film-makers of our age – into the movies they make, and the personal creative vortex they emerge from – who would you chose?
In 1995, in a legendary bidding war, they competed at the Paris auction house Drouot for a magnificent 18th-century secretary in Japanese lacquer by one of the great makers of the age, Bernard van Risenburgh.
With the rest of May seeing the arrival of Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast and Furious 6, The Great Gatsby, The Hangover: Part III and animation Epic from the makers of Ice Age, this coming weekend the market first pauses for breath.
By contrast, the film historian Peter Kramer has observed that Lucas and his longtime collaborator Steven Spielberg became the defining film-makers of the age, by addressing Disney's core audience with a new generation of family-friendly adventures (and the American trade newspaper Variety actually described Spielberg's ET as "The greatest Disney movie Disney never made").
The group, Leary maintains, is a microcosm of the taste-makers of the Age of Information, the "deciders," the trend-setters in the trend-setting capital of the Solar System--a town Leary thrives on, and vice versa.
