In 1996, I attended a conservative conference called Dark Ages at the Phoenix Biltmore resort.
Women today comprise half the workforce, but financially, many still live in the dark ages.
Yet that was in the dark ages of technology, and Internet purchases are now huge.
FORBES: Court Rules Internet Sales Tax Constitutional So Get Ready To Click And Pay
The poem is (brace yourself) a relic of the Dark Ages--as in chain mail, not e-mail.
Modern thinking is the enlightenment thinking that ended the Dark Ages and ushered in Newtonian science.
In those dark ages, people had to wait a whole day before pundits put spin on things.
"This suit seeks to keep the taxi industry and New Yorkers in the dark ages, " he said.
Despite dramatic advances in information technology, many electric utilities still operate in the dark ages of data management.
Then came the Dark Ages of American Energy, thirty years of business as usual and fossils (fuels, mostly).
FORBES: Here's To Secretary Chu And The End Of Energy's Dark Ages
Instead I got to work designing a training program that would take these folks out of the dark ages.
FORBES: Congress Motivated By Fear, Incompetence... Just Like Big Business!
Being curious could get you burned at the stake in the Dark Ages.
FORBES: Curiosity Didn't Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap
Zero per capita GDP growth what 2% constitutes was the very recipe that produced the Dark Ages.
FORBES: The Wealth Of The States Vs. 'New Normal' Stagnation
That a housing bubble burst will propel us back into the Dark Ages.
Like other big Japanese companies, its personnel policies and management practices are, by western standards, in the dark ages.
This is a truly unique lens through which to view the dark ages.
FORBES: Play The Torturer In This Dark Medieval RPG - Inquisitor
As far as public awareness, drowsy driving is in the dark ages compared to that, but it's just as dangerous.
The truth is, we are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to knowing what actually changes weather patterns.
Once the panic cooled, we talked about why I wanted our company to return to the Dark Ages, before electronic communication.
FORBES: I Banned All Internal E-Mails at My Company for a Week
In both registers, the first half of the book, from pre-history through the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, is outstanding.
"We have parents who had to carry us through dark ages and try to get us to be normal citizens, " she says.
When Rome fell and barbarian hordes raped and murdered their way across the dark ages, civilization was rebuilt on the Christmas story.
FORBES: Christmas, Kurtosis, Fat Tails, Black Swans and Risk Management
Thanks for sending us back to the dark ages with your article.
Sutton Hoo was a milestone for historians of the Dark Ages because it reversed the perception that Anglo Saxons were relatively unsophisticated.
We are a democracy, they're taking us back to the dark ages.
SLD, and though its tenure has not been marked by free-market zealotry, neither has it plunged Poland back into the dark ages.
So too the intellectual triumphs of recent years don't signify that man has become any more intelligent than he was in the preceding dark ages.
Despite the transition to deregulation in many states, several investor-owned utilities still seem to be operating in the Dark Ages of corporate governance.
FORBES: Investor-Owned Utilities: Asleep at the Switch or Above the Law?
Put more simply, if we had never let inventors profit from their inventions, we would all still be living in the dark ages.
The project highlighted weaknesses in waste disposal, and in the problem posed by abandoned mines which were operating in the industry's dark ages.
To 15th and 16th Century scholars, the period following antiquity - the so-called "dark ages"- had almost succeeded in obliterating classical learning forever.
BBC: A Point of View: Why didn't Harry Potter just use Google?
应用推荐