A technology era, however, is more complex and heterogeneous.
In this information technology era, increasingly more people are eager to receive continuing education.
Aside from being cleaner and quieter, the cars and the event itself would be showcases for vanguard technologies.
The brief asked designers to conceive a "Ferrari of the Third Millennium" a hypercar reflecting speed, the use of lightweight materials and vanguard technologies.
For all the real-world vanguard technologies packed inside, this magic bus may remain parked in the realm of fantasy.
But these technology eras keep getting shorter and shorter.
"We are out here on the vanguard of technology," Mr. Fuentes said in his bar, a tourist haunt with tiki lights and salsa tunes.
Since then cross-border credit has fizzled (see chart 1) and looks likely to fall further.European lenders were in the vanguard during the era of internationalisation, and around a third of their assets are outside their home markets.
Indeed, China's entrepreneurial companies may well be the vanguard of an era in which the ability to adapt quickly, navigate messy environments, and use unproven talent yields a global competitive advantage.
The show reveals once more the seamlessness between the Bauhaus-inflected vanguard and the era's commercial work, visible especially in the starkly ordered images of china, flatware, biscuits and plumbing pipes by Vera Gabrielova, Jan Lauschmann and Alexander Hackenschmied.
Harrison was thus in the vanguard in an era full of vanguards, opening the door of the "Orient" to Flower Power and the Western Counterculture.
