On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Bellamy's vision of a country relieved of its social ills through abandonment of the principle of competition and establishment of state ownership of industry proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.

The remainder of the book outlines Bellamy's thoughts about improving the future.

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

: Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

Bellamy's lyrical writing is relatively simple but his subject matters are usually not-world events, the end of the world, hyperspace, technology, religion, George Orwells ' 1984 ' ( for ' Resistance '), among other subjects.

He came off the bench to replace Johnson in the 60th minute and then set up Craig Bellamy's second goal in the 4 – 2 win over the Blues.

The shooting was the culmination of a month's long dispute the men had over Darlene Sharp, who was Bellamy's former girlfriend, and Sadler's girlfriend at the time.

Despite the " ethical " character of his socialism ( though he was initially loath to use the term " socialism "), Bellamy's ideas somewhat reflect classical Marxism.

Beyond the purely literary sphere, Bellamy's descriptions of utopian urban planning had a practical influence on Ebenezer Howard's founding of the garden city movement in England, and on the design of the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

Bellamy's early novels, including Six to One ( 1877 ), Dr. Heidenhoff's Process ( 1880 ), and Miss Ludington's Sister ( 1884 ) were unremarkable works, making use of standard psychological plots.

This phase of Bellamy's life came to an end in 1894, when The New Nation was forced to suspend publication owing to financial difficulties.

The book saw print in 1898 and would prove to be Bellamy's final creation.

* Elizabeth Sadler, " One Book's Influence: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward " The New England Quarterly, Vol.

Whitehouse stars alongside Charlie Higson in a new BBC2 comedy series called Bellamy's People, the first episode was broadcast on 21 January 2010.

Other science fiction works of the period, including Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the later Metropolis, dealt with similar themes.

One classic example of such a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.

Another socialist utopia is William Morris ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down ( bureaucratic ) nature of Bellamy's utopia, which Morris criticized.

In Francis Bellamy's recollection of the creation of the Pledge, he recalled " At the beginning of the nineties patriotism and national feeling was at a low ebb.

Having received the official blessing of educators, Bellamy's committee now had the task of spreading the word across the nation and of designing an official program for schools to follow on the day of national celebration.

Bellamy's views on immigration and universal suffrage were somewhat less egalitarian.

The fictional " Combe sisters " featured in the BBC 2 series Bellamy's People bear a striking resemblance to the Mitford sisters.

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.

Rocker was particularly impressed by the writings of Constantin Franz, a federalist and opponent of Bismarck's centralized German Empire ; Eugen Dühring, an anti-Marxist socialist, whose theories had some anarchist aspects ; novels like Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ; as well as the traditional socialist literature such as Karl Marx's Capital and Ferdinand Lasalle and August Bebel's writings.

After reading Edward Bellamy's Equality, Pannekoek became a convinced socialist and started studying Karl Marx's theories.

* Samuel Bellamy's life and death are the main subject of the song " The Death of Captain Bellamy ", written and performed by celtic punk band Barren Waves.

From pantheist mysticism to humble Christian spirituality, from celebration of corporeality and ecstatic unity of human, non-human and the divine to meditative repose, from the ironic verse making burlesque of modern technology-driven civilization to the tender verbal music hallowing ancient Dalmatian hamlets, from the powerful expression of erotic yearning to the resignation to the fates of human condition — Ujević's poetry is a polymorphous vision of life, blend of often conflicting traditions ranging from the Mediterranean ideal of harmonious beauty and modern existentialist sensibility expressed in the verses of unmatched virtuosity and profundity.

In this work, Kropotkin shares his vision of a more harmonious way of living based on cooperation instead of competition.

" The current construction of a harmonious society, however, is a socio-economic vision that is said to be the result of Chinese leader Hu Jintao's signature ideology of the Scientific Development Concept.

The timing of such a message thus also marks the political agenda of President Hu, who tried to carry out a new vision and walk out of the shadow of his predecessor, President Jiang Zemin. Near the end of his regime in 2011, President Hu's visit to the U. S. represents a focus on the international dimensions of peace and cooperation, which could also be well incorporated into the concept of a harmonious society, or a harmonious world.

Although on the surface, “ harmonious society ” seems benign, many scholars believe that President Hu has a vision for a deeper reform of the political system in China.

The Founders ’ vision, which in fact was translated into reality even in the earliest years of the school ’ s existence, revolved around the creation of a school which fostered the “ harmonious development of students ’ intellectual, ethical and physical capabilities, especially character ” by enhancing the existing educational system with “ modern educational methods which took into account the Greek nation ’ s history, traditions, culture and specific needs .”

On the narrower ground of poetic form, he felt that in the drama of the future the Greek conception of tragic fate should be joined to the Shakespearean vision of tragic will.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

The drive along Massachusetts' Route 128, the by-pass which makes an arc about twenty miles from downtown Boston, may be a vision of the future.

Yet looking far into the future the Völva sees a brighter vision of a new world, when both Höðr and Baldr will come back ( stanza 62 ).

The vision in the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon ( 7: 1 ) concerning four great beasts ( 7: 3 ) representing four future kings ( 7: 17 ) or kingdoms ( 7: 23 ), the fourth of which devours the whole earth, treading it down and crushing it ( 7: 23 ).

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

The remaining chapters are a vision of the future glory of Zion.

In the future world of Wells ' vision, virtually all members of humanity know this language.

The genre's vision of a troubled future is often called the antithesis of the generally utopian visions of the future popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

In American contexts, the word " Camelot " is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and many were inspired by Kennedy's speeches, vision, and policies.

In particular the flag has become a banner for pro-Europeanism outside the Union, for example in Georgia, where the flag is on most government buildings since the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, who used it during his inauguration, stating: " European flag is Georgia ’ s flag as well, as far as it embodies our civilisation, our culture, the essence of our history and perspective, and our vision for the future of Georgia.

Since history and memory ( representations of or belief about the past ) are distinct in all philosophy and ontology from plan, vision or intent ( representations of or will to change the future ), statements that confuse these are category errors: No statement about history or memory can imply a similar statement about a plan or vision or intent, nor vice versa-a distinction sometimes credited to Hume who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

* The vision of the business reflects its aspirations and specifies its intended direction or future destination.

It was the first educational facility to create such an initiative and an example of Northern's vision for the future.

The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

Natasha Lesperance, of the Youth Service Bureau, praised the vision of targeting young people to build a modern future for the Seychelles nation with telecommunications and believed that internet cafés opening in different districts would " wean young people and children away from all vices in society, which will eventually help to build a vibrant knowledge-based society that can stand shoulder to shoulder with any developed nation in the world ".

In the Preface of Humanist Manifesto II, in 1973, the authors Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson assert that faith and knowledge are required for a hopeful vision for the future.

Aeneas is given a vision of the future majesty of Rome, which it was his duty to found, and returns to the world of the living.