In the opening story, 'The War of the Bernsteins', 50-year-old Mr B schemes for a front-row seat in the afterlife.
With a single tap on one of these panels, a user can recreate favorite lighting schemes for a Super Bowl party or a quiet evening with an old-fashioned piece of technology: a good book.
His first published book was his Essay on Projects (1697), full of ambitious schemes for a new and better nation (from an academy for women to improved schemes for helping bankrupt businessmen).
The conference-goers discussed schemes for a four-day working week, for abolishing daylight savings time, for holding elections at the weekend, and generally for making America more like countries such as Italy and Denmark.
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered by governments and private companies.
"There has been a feeling in the schemes for a long time of quiet desperation, that it didn't matter who got elected in the general election or the council, and the main problem was apathy," she argues.
And at a meeting tentatively set for this June, European space ministers will choose one of two schemes for a new upper stage which will give the launcher a nine-tonne capacity.
Grand plans for European-style double-decker trains were rejected as impractical, as were schemes for a high-speed rail route (run, in the wildest of dreams, on magnetic-levitation technology) connecting London to the north.
Convincing people to work longer, says Mr Du, will require better management of state pension schemes for a population largely sceptical about the fairness, reliability and flexibility of pensions.
Many view ICOs and crypto-token sales as fraudulent schemes for a quick money grab.
I hate how some GPS units throw-out decades-old labeling schemes for a cartoonish display.
