But in what he calls "our new world of flattened time and space, " I wonder if we are also seeing, alongside the radical democratization of time and space, the flattening of age.
The "Colne Cyclone" has twice been part of a world-record breaking team this year - in the team pursuit final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and on Thursday, as part of the Great Britain Olympic team, setting a new world-record time during the men's team pursuit track cycling qualifier.
In the last day of London's swimming competition, the American women won the 4x100-meter medley relay race, setting a new world record with a time of 3:52.05.
In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The Geosocial Universe infographic, mapping this new world for the first time.
But Davies fears if Wales are still struggling to score tries by the time the World Cup in New Zealand kicks off next October, their time Down Under will be short-lived.
As a result, between 1850 and 1913 wages and living standards in Europe caught up more quickly with those in the New World than at any other time.
June was expected to be a quiet time in New York auction houses, a time for the art world to digest the many record-breaking prices set at the May auctions.
In this new world where so much of our time is spent online, the aesthetics and safety of our constructed environment are more important than ever.
Lehrman also adds a rather detailed program to find an appropriate new gold parity for the dollar, and also for other currencies that would join the new world gold standard around the same time.
Although his 200-meters winning time set a new world record that was to stand for 11 years Smith never ran for the U.S. again, and was eventually forced to give up athletics and turn to American football instead.
We so believe that we have to earn your time with new and different looks at the world of business--and that the smart money has already been made by redux time--that we make a special effort to go where the others will have to follow.
And it is not discussed very much at all in articles on how to function in the fast-paced new world of not having a full-time job for one employer.
In addition, insight from real-time intelligence can open up a whole new world of solutions.
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And they insist that the shift away from printed books will be slow, giving them more time to adapt to the brave new digital world.
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Mr. Catsimatidis has based his campaign in part on dreamy ideas, kicking it off with a promise to bring the World's Fair to New York for a third time in 2014.
In 1913, a groundbreaking show at the Armory, which brought hundreds of works by modern European artists to New York for the first time, changed Stieglitz's world forever.
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Moreover, Sony pushes its own proprietary technology, including the Memory Stick used in the new Cli, at a time when the rest of the world has embraced open standards.
The first time the world will see Nike's new double act in action will be on Thursday when McIlroy and Woods line up for the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi.
But the Rugby World Cup is bound to be a proud time for New Zealand.
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Wenger is also concerned that Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie may not be ready in time for the new campaign after their involvement in the World Cup final.
When the Army Corps of Engineers built a giant new headquarters for the Navy and War Departments in record time during World War II, locals marveled at how unobtrusive the five-sided building was.
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Winston Reid headed a dramatic injury-time equaliser against Slovakia to earn New Zealand their first ever World Cup point.
It is a region that, in 50 years' time, will undoubtedly be the new power center of the world game.
At the same time, rich-world firms have invested heavily in new technology, raising demand for skilled workers faster than schools could increase supply.
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But for the time being, Iceland is a world leader in developing new sources of geothermal energy, and the government is taking advantage of that head-start by inviting new power-hungry industries to its shores.
The social network has, in a little over six years, picked up 500 million users, sucked up a good bit of the world's free time, and not incidentally made possible new forms of organization among strangers that have affected the policies of nations.
When Kevin Rudd admitted to public drunkenness at a strip club in New York - which was probably the first time most people around the world first got to hear about him - he was in the company of Col Allan, the Australian editor of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.
The case puts the world of web addresses under the spotlight at a time when several new domain names are coming online.
Her new book, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World captures a powerful time of transition in our society, led primarily by women.
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The Institute comes at the right time, when the world is debating the contours of a new global sustainable development agenda to follow 2015.
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