"A social experiment as radical as same-sex marriage should not be attempted without democratic consensus, " he wrote.
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Now populated by a permanent workforce dressed in period costume, Skansen is part social experiment, part living museum.
However not all FutureCast attendees agreed that this social experiment is that great.
However, the programme makers insist it is a unique social experiment to see how prepared teenagers really are for parenting.
For those willing to examine the evidence objectively, this social experiment has been tried hundreds of time throughout human history.
"We are about to enter into this great social experiment, " he said.
Sixteen suites in 300-level will be removed and replaced with a full-service open-air lounge overlooking the court, which is part social experiment and sports experience.
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At the very least, it will be an interesting social experiment.
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To that end, for the past few years Honest Tea has been conducting a Candid-Camera-like social experiment to determine which cities were the most (or least) honest.
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If this bold social experiment produces lots of isolated people, there will of course be an outlet for their loneliness: they can confide in their robot pets and partners.
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From August 8-18th, in this ingenious 30-city social experiment, Honest Tea was using the honor system to see which city had the most honest people.
Chicago was home of the Gautreaux housing settlement in the 1970s, a social experiment on the value of breaking up dysfunctional neighborhoods and dispersing inhabitants to communities with intact families, intact schools, intact employment opportunities.
As New Orleans has just become the first major city to suspend a daily printed newspaper, the city has become somewhat of a social experiment in testing the relevance of print and the written word.
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And those commanders in whom we've placed the trust to make life-and-death decisions and to defend our freedom should be given that same level of trust in determining what people they use and what jobs to perform the mission, and women have done this, and they're not using women today in Iraq as a social experiment.
Microsoft, for example, is taking a cautious approach to its latest social media experiment, So.cl, which actually is part social network, part search engine.
That tradition continues with UE BOOM and interactive programs such as The Social Music Experiment.
Life itself is the most telling social science experiment of them all and we are its most thoroughly tested lab rats.
As part of this effort throughout the summer, Ultimate Ears is teaming up with YouTube comedy channel JASH and its noted music expert, Reggie Watts, to produce an original series entitled The Social Music Experiment.
The success of America's biggest experiment in social reform depends in large part on how many people can find, and keep, private-sector jobs.
Some companies are waiting for quants on how exactly social media works before they experiment.
The explosive growth of Chinese social-networking sites coupled with inadequate recruiting platforms, is driving many companies in China to experiment with new methods such as social media.
As a marketing professional, I tend to experiment with many different social networks.
The idea is that the project will be a social, as well as medical, experiment.
Perhaps one of the most interesting critiques of Ireland's blogging experiment comes from one of its veteran technology and social Web researchers, who says the blogosphere came to reflect the very vices of the establishment it ought to have been eviscerating: "It's an incestuous little clique that doesn't like criticism from without, " he said, asking not to be named given the sensitivity of his position.
But Smedley and his compatriots were riding a wave of social change as much as they were creating one, and their experiment lasted only a few years.
When it comes to her art, Fadel continues drawing inspiration from living in Egypt, where in the bustling streets she can talk to people across social classes, feel alive and hold her tools, and most of all, experiment.
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The potential of social media is intriguing, but to determine its true value, companies will need to experiment.
In particular, she described her research experiment to apply the ideas of semantic analysis to what people discuss in a social site like Twitter.
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We are in the early years of a big experiment centered on using hundreds of millions of consumers and activists to pursue progressive social ends.
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