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.

Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy.

Modern man, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer has told us, has `` come of age '' ; ;

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

During the more recent Modern era and in the Post-Modern period the artillery crew has used wheeled or tracked vehicles as a mode of transportation.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Modern genetics has made clear that the lack of use does not, in itself, necessitate a feature's disappearance.

Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time.

Modern technology ( the internet and cheaper home printing ) has also influenced board games via the phenomenon of print-and-play board games that you buy and print yourself.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Modern barter and trade has evolved considerably to become an effective method of increasing sales, conserving cash, moving inventory, and making use of excess production capacity for businesses around the world.

Modern biotechnology has evolved, making it possible to produce more easily and relatively cheaply human growth hormone, clotting factors for hemophiliacs, fertility drugs, erythropoietin and other drugs.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century " ethnology ", which involves the organized comparison of human societies.

Modern research has located 20, 000 mass graves from the Khmer Rouge era all over Cambodia.

More recently, Modern Family character Cameron Tucker has been shown as a Bears fan.

Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as " football ", played at public schools in England in the mid-19th century.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

In turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.

Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

Modern diplomatic immunity evolved parallel to the development of modern diplomacy.

Modern standard Estonian has evolved on the basis of the dialects of Northern Estonia.

Modern paleontology has joined with evolutionary biology to share the interdisciplinary task of unfolding the tree of life, which inevitably leads backwards in time to the microscopic life of the Precambrian when cell structure and functions evolved.

Modern flight management systems have evolved sufficiently to allow a crew to plan a flight not only as to route and altitude, but to specific time of arrival at specific locations.

Modern materials science evolved directly from metallurgy, which itself evolved from mining and ( likely ) ceramics and the use of fire.

Modern humans evolved about 190, 000 years ago ( source: Leakey ).

Modern Western universities evolved from the monastic institutions and ( especially ) cathedral schools of Western Europe during the High Middle Ages ( see, for instance, the University of Bologna, Paris University and Oxford University ).

Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from, and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylums.

Modern Western square dance evolved from the Western style of traditional square dance from about 1940 to 1960.

Modern species of Bos are thought to have evolved from a single ancestor, the aurochs ( B. primigenius ).

Modern bass fishing has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry.

Modern Sollentuna evolved around the railway between Uppsala and Stockholm, inaugurated in 1866.

Modern Mongolian evolved from " Middle Mongol ", the language spoken in the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries.

Modern masks have evolved to be less bulky compared with older designs.

The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of Mandaic, a Semitic language that evolved from Eastern Middle Aramaic, before switching to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and Modern Persian.

Modern Hungarian folk music evolved in the 19th century, and is contrasted with previous styles through the use of arched melodic lines as opposed to the more archaic descending lines.

Modern day beer pong has evolved past the ping pong table and on to regulation sized Beer Pong Tables.

German Dachs, Dutch das, Norwegian svin-toks ; Early Modern English: dasse ), probably from the PIE root * tek '- " to construct ," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts ( tunnels ); the Germanic term * þahsu-became taxus or taxō ,-ōnis in Latin glosses, replacing mēlēs (" marten " or " badger "), and from these words the common Romance terms for the animal evolved ( Italian tasso, French tesson / taisson / tasson – now blaireau is more common –, Catalan toixó, Spanish tejón, Portuguese texugo ).

In later Middle English and Early Modern English the þ evolved into a y shape, so that the word was spelled yat ( although the spelling with a th replacing the þ was starting to become more popular ) and the abbreviation for that was a y with a small t above it ( ).