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...poetry and theoretical articles that provides a key to understanding the cultural ferment of the early avant-garde movement in Russia. Her collaboration with the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh sought to overcome the boundaries that separate poetry from art. The two worked together on various projects, mostly editions of lithographic futurist books, enthused by the idea that words should serve as visual symbols that lack any specific meaning...
Which returns us to Catholicism. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 set off what religion futurist Richard Cimino calls "an explosion of lay ministry." This, plus a persistent priest shortage, caused some parishes to approximate a female pastorate. Circuit-riding priests would stop by a church to celebrate Communion and hear confession. In between, however, women--church trained and often called pastor--ran the parish. Eventually there were at least 300 such arrangements (some say there were thousands), but after John Paul II's 1994 letter banning further talk of ordaining women, the movement tailed off. The Pope...
...charisma bypass." Levin is a quiet man. He doesn't have the voluble energy of a Mike Armstrong, the CEO of AT&T, or the raging fire of IBM's Gerstner. But Levin's brainpower, delivered first from a pedestal as Time Warner's strategist and futurist, has commanded the board of directors' attention. And so have his flameouts, riveting in the same way a NASCAR wreck is--all wheels, fire and smoking rubble. His track record, after all, includes half a dozen spectacularly costly crashes. Among them: TV-Cable Week ($47 million), a TV-information service called Teletext...
...Chris Dede is a great addition to our department because he's been working on these ideas for several decades," Wiske said. "He's a futurist, looking at what's coming...
...troops are silent. Stunned. Amazon, profitable? It's autumn 1999. For years these people have been racing toward a horizon that no one, save perhaps their utopian-futurist boss, even really sees. They know much of the Silicon Valley/Wall Street/media complex believes the commodification of online retailing will lay their company to waste. Amazon the Web's golden child, darling of NASDAQ day traders who raise its market cap even faster than the company bleeds money, is also Amazon the avatar of all that may be ephemeral and fraudulent about the dotcom revolution. Now Bezos has named a date...