* Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a Technological singularity for 2045, i. e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.

Notably, in 1997 they recorded an instrumental album known as The Futurist for modern dance troupe LaLaLa Human Steps.

His States of Mind, in three large panels, The Farewell, Those who Go, and Those Who Stay, " made his first great statement of Futurist painting, bringing his interests in Bergson, Cubism and the individual's complex experience of the modern world together in what has been described as one of the ' minor masterpieces ' of early twentieth century painting.

In a 1990 essay " Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy ", he introduced the term " transhumanism " in its modern sense.

Futurist Christians consider the " Abomination of Desolation " prophecy of Daniel mentioned by Jesus in and as referring to an event in the end time future, when a 7 year peace treaty will be signed between Israel and a world ruler called " the man of lawlessness ", or the " Antichrist " affirmed by the writings of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians.

In the Futurist approach, Revelation is chiefly seen as referring to events which as yet have not come to pass, but which will come to pass at the end of the age, and the end of the world.

* UpWingers: A Futurist Manifesto 1973 ( ISBN 0-381-98243-2 ) ( pbk.

* 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat ( a. k. a. the Fascist Manifesto ).

Soon afterward a group of painters ( Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, and Gino Severini ) co-signed the Futurist Manifesto.

* The Prometheus Award is given by the Libertarian Futurist Society for Libertarian science fiction.

The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus.

L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982.

Three novels from this period, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough for Love, won the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

* In 1910 – 11 Futurist artist Gino Severini painted " The Black Cat " in direct reference to Poe's short story.

The conjunction of such subject-matter with simultaneity aligns Salon Cubism with early Futurist paintings by Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Carlo Carrà ; themselves made in response to early Cubism.

The Manifesto that was written by national syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

This claim is not true: he was preceded by the Italian Futurists Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna between 1911 and 1912 ( as they report in the Futurist Manifesto of Cinema ), as well as by fellow German artist Walter Ruttmann who produced Lichtspiel Opus 1 in 1920.

The gap between the Imagist and Futurist groups was defined partly by Aldington's critical disapproval of the poetry of Filippo Marinetti.

Primo Conti ( October 16, 1900 — November 12, 1988 ) was an Italian Futurist artist.

His attraction to the latest innovations was expressed in almost completely Futurist forms in his drawings, while he developed a unique style in his painting that was a mixture of Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Expressionism and Orphism.

It was not until 1917, after meeting with Giacomo Balla in Rome, and with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Naples ( who later enthusiastically praised Conti's book Imbottigliature which was about to be printed ) that Conti became part of the Futurist movement.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has speculated that by the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

" Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art.

Futurist Paul Raskin has hypothesized that a new, more legitimate form of global politics could be based on “ constrained pluralism .” This principle guides the formation of institutions based on three characteristics: irreducibility, where some issues must be adjudicated at the global level ; subsidiarity, which limits the scope of global authority to truly global issues while smaller-scope issues are regulated at lower levels ; and heterogeneity, which allows for diverse forms of local and regional institutions as long as they meet global obligations.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

* Simon Tyssot de Patot and the Seventeenth-Century Background of Critical Deism by David Rice McKee ( Johns Hopkins Press, 1941 )

They included Simon Newcomb at Johns Hopkins, John Bates Clark at Columbia, James Laurence Laughlin at Chicago, Charles F Dunbar and Frank William Taussig at Harvard, Arthur T. Hadley and William Graham Sumner at Yale, and controlled the American university system in the East.

Well-known currently active performers include the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ian McKellen, Clive Owen, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Craig, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Orlando Bloom, Tilda Swinton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christian Bale, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Paul Bettany, Mischa Barton, Emma Thompson, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Laurie, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman, Jason Isaacs, John Hurt, Emily Blunt, Sienna Miller, Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Ray Winstone, Peter O ' Toole, Jeremy Irons, Gary Oldman, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, Tim Roth, Robert Pattinson, Julie Andrews, Sean Bean, Gemma Arterton, Gerard Butler, Tom Hardy, Maggie Smith, Russell Brand, Andrew Garfield, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine and Sacha Baron Cohen.

Some Bollywood and Hollywood actors and producers associated with the tightly-knitted Merchant Ivory film family include Leela Naidu, Madhur Jaffrey, Aparna Sen, Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Simon Callow, Anthony Hopkins, Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, and Helena Bonham Carter.

lang, Sarah, Duchess of York, Paul Schrader, Peter Sellers, Peter Kay, Paul McCartney, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Clarkson, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Julie Andrews, Dame Edna Everage, Helen Mirren, Tommy Cooper, Judi Dench, Naomi Campbell, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, Olivia Newton-John, Billie Piper, David Tennant, Denzel Washington, Gillian Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Sandra Bullock, Joan Rivers, Bonnie Tyler and Buddy Rich.

The first director of laboratories was Simon Flexner, former Johns Hopkins University student of the Institute's first scientific director, William H. Welch, first dean of Hopkins ' medical school and known as the dean of American medicine.

Among the institutions that enjoy sister relationships with NTNU are the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil, La Universidad Nacional de Asuncion in Paraguay, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Radford University, Rutgers University, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa and University of Pittsburgh in the US, the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada, the University of Glasgow and University of London in the UK, the Denis Diderot University and University of Poitiers in France, University of Bonn and University of Heidelberg in Germany, the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in Austria, the RSM Erasmus University in the Netherlands, the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, and the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, to name a few.

The Commission's members had included both William Welch, the first Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Simon Flexner and the China Medical Board modeled the school after Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine following the recommendations of the Flexner Report which set the foundation of modern Medical Education in the United States and Canada.

A younger brother of the medical researcher Simon Flexner, who was employed by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1901 – 1935, Flexner graduated from Johns Hopkins University at age 19.

* Simon Burrows, A Literary Low-Life Reassessed: Charles Théveneau de Morande in London, 1769-1791 from Johns Hopkins University Press.

In addition to Bernard Hopkins, Paul Williams, " Sugar " Shane Mosley, Angel Hernandez, Felix Trinidad and Jermain Taylor, Wright has fought former world champions Bronco McKart three times, Keith Mullings, Fernando Vargas, Harry Simon, Ike Quartey and Julio Cesar Vasquez.

As part of this program, in 1818 the U. S. contracted with Benjamin Hopkins of Vermont to build a large masonry fort on Mobile Point after a design by Simon Bernard, who had been a military engineer for Napoleon.

Blondheim had been a Medieval Studies fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1926 ; then became a professor and Romance philologist at Johns Hopkins University from 1929 to 1932.

Since then the club has gradually established a good working relationship with the Ospreys regional team, with O ' Callaghan eventually stepping down from the coaching role in 2004 to be succeeded by Kevin Hopkins, who in turn was succeeded by current incumbent Simon King, and currently work with the region in the development of talented young players.