At any rate, corporate governance has come a long way since the not-too-distant days when directors regarded all shareholders' questions as gross impertinence.
They have come a long way from the not-too-distant days when one of their biggest tasks was to deliver myriad production data to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on the last business day of each month.
The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
Yet the most provocative aspect of his vision, that avant-garde art could be a truly popular and collective experience, may be more distant than ever in the fragmentary multi-channel long-tail present.
Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.