Word: becomingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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"The conditions on the mountain were very icy, and it was a very hard snow that was falling," Myers said. "The actual falling snow did not make much of a difference during the race, because the course was just becoming icier as it got colder."
What's new about the future, and potentially more challenging to our species than Martian colonization or silicon brain implants, is that the partnership between the sexes is becoming entirely voluntary. We can decide to stick together--or we can finally say, "Sayonara, other sex!" For the first time in...
The next distinction to vanish will be social. One thing that used to make teenagers teenagers was the postponement of family responsibilities, but these days even 30- and 40-year-olds are postponing family responsibilities, often permanently. Coming of age is becoming a lifelong process--it's not just for...
That's the trouble with cyberspace. It leaves nothing to chance. The Internet, with its antlike order, is in some ways becoming a Web of gated communities. It could deepen cultural and socioeconomic rifts even to the point of straining a nation's social fabric.
Even if a building is not sliced and shredded at the design stage, there is another way in which the box is being overwhelmed. The standard office tower can be covered these days with electronic signage, huge liquid-crystal display screens, Jumbotron TVs and zip strips of news and stock...