Word: concepts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...greatest irony of the concept of Utopia is that people are still searching for it when, at the dawn of the 21st century, most citizens of the world's industrial democracies are already living in one. Does anyone doubt that if we could communicate with any person--even the wealthiest and most privileged--who lived much before 1900, and told them that we live in a time when even ordinary people have clean clothes and houses, nutritious food and potable water with which to bathe and cook, the freedom to quit any job we dislike, the ability to hear symphonic...
...course of invention, from concept to commercial use, almost always runs over many years, so we limited our list of candidates to products that have become available to their ultimate users during the calendar year 2000. Many of these were granted patents several or more years ago. Some fascinating products that are already demonstrably successful nonetheless missed the cut because they won't reach consumers until early 2001. Because the yield from our survey was far more than these three inventions, we are including a gallery featuring dozens of other products, devices and ideas. Some are serious in their impact...
After refining their combined PET and CT concept for three years, Nutt and Townsend, who had transferred from the University of Geneva to the University of Pittsburgh, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in 1995 that enabled them to complete a prototype machine. Installed at the University of Pittsburgh medical center in 1998, it has been used successfully to scan some 200 patients...
...enthusiastic ISC salesman told him the idea was brilliant--just what every inventor wants to hear--and pressured him to sign up before someone else came up with the same concept. Mahaffey quickly ponied up $625, borrowed from family and friends, for the patent search. "They told me everything out there was based on radio transmissions," he recalls. "I had an original idea, and I had to hurry to protect it. My father had invented the pop-top soda can but couldn't afford to follow through. He still regrets it. I didn't want that to happen...
...seems that a key concept of First Nights is "creation in performance." Can you explain that idea...