And it was ahead of its time by many years.
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HOW long can a story stay ahead of its time?
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Maybe too far ahead of its time, in some ways.
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The Super Nintendo really was far ahead of its time.
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App Engine was probably a bit ahead of its time.
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But the OJCCT was a bit ahead of its time.
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Intellivision was ahead of its time at the tech level.
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That was an idea that was ahead of its time.
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There's no question the iBOT was ahead of its time.
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It's a game that's kind of ahead of its time.
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Does anything stand out as particularly ahead of its time?
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And yet, it also still feels ahead of its time.
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The Boondocks was ahead of its time in many ways.
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But maybe the prediction is still ahead of its time.
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In many ways, Roosevelt's Progressive candidacy was ahead of its time.
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Apple Lisa, 1983 The Lisa was way ahead of its time.
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But this machine was efficient and totally ahead of its time.
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In Europe it is seen as being ahead of its time.
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Robocop is very of its time and ahead of its time.
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Do you feel that the show was ahead of its time?
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For now, though, the Dash's design is ahead of its time.
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The white backwards tux was ahead of its time, truly. 17.
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Deitch himself feels unequivocally that Artstar was ahead of its time.
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But it's not the only '60s piece ahead of its time.
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It had always been too expensive and ahead of its time.
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The product was ahead of its time, and three years later, Apps.
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Da Vinci's helicopter idea was a few centuries ahead of its time.
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The original Charmed was "ahead of its time," as O'Toole put it.
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Looking back, my dad's parenting style seems pretty ahead of its time.
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Or maybe it was just a little too ahead of its time.
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But the wry humor of it now feels ahead of its time.
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Beyond the image was a savvy offensive approach ahead of its time.
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It was somehow both commercially successful and desperately ahead of its time.
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Good Housekeeping deemed the turtleneck long-sleeve dress "ahead of its time."
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Bend It Like Beckham was ahead of its time in almost every way.
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But only the 22009DD failed because it really was ahead of its time.
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"I think it's ahead of its time," Reeves says of the gothic thriller.
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Maybe it wasn't fully formed, or maybe it was ahead of its time.
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"OnLive was ahead of its time," he said in a conversation with TechCrunch.
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Even in this respect, the 2011 HP logo was ahead of its time.
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In that sense I think Bug Juice was really ahead of its time.
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The idea was ahead of its time, and their timing was impeccably bad.
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We'll never know if Milli Vanilli was actually years ahead of its time.
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So I think if anything, Launch was way, way ahead of its time.
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But if LaFrance's project was disappointing, it was also ahead of its time.
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Looking back, just how ahead-of-its-time modern — and sexy — was that?
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The movie was released in 2005 but it was way ahead of its time.
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But maybe the Zero's hole-less form is arriving years ahead of its time.
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The Compass is now widely acknowledged to have been far ahead of its time.
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"It was wonderful technology, very ahead of its time," Lee told Businessweek in 2006.
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A lot of that book still felt relevant and certainly ahead of its time.
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The perceptron was way ahead of its time, leveraging neuroscience to advance machine learning.
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Its place in the market is still relatively ahead of its time, it seems.
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Ahead of its time in online play, yet lumbered with a sluggish, unusable modem.
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I do feel like it was maybe a little bit ahead of its time.
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There was a variety of reasons why that idea was legitimately ahead of its time.
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DigitalGenius may have been ahead of its time, but the market is finally catching up.
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The series was at once a little bit clumsy and legitimately ahead of its time.
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Aaliyah's sound was futuristic, and in turn, her glam was also ahead of its time.
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A decade later, it looks like a project that was just ahead of its time.
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Entitled "The Hermaphrodite" and written in the 1840s, it was vastly ahead of its time.
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Despite their failures over China, the D-21 program was significantly ahead of its time.
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However, the ISF turned out to be an idea that was ahead of its time.
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The e-cig predecessor was "a bit too far ahead of its time," Rose said.
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But I would argue it's incorrect to conclude that Vegas was ahead of its time.
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Later, in a museum, you can appreciate the dress: amazing, so ahead of its time.
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Conventional wisdom has it that the first generation of the product was ahead of its time.
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But it was just an idea that was a decade or so ahead of its time.
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"The FX was definitely ahead of its time for having a semi-automatic gearbox," says Kim.
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But he saw the potential right away — even if it was years ahead of its time.
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It sounds both nostalgic and the product of its time—maybe even ahead of its time.
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On Golf Long ahead of its time, the Ryder Cup now risks falling out of step.
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"The show was so progressive and ahead of its time," Joe Samalian, Ms. Gabriel's husband, added.
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Richardson's vision would wrestle the equations into submission, but it was rather ahead of its time.
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To say it was ahead of its time would not be giving Eno and Chilvers enough credit.
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One former Microsoft Health colleague, Sean Nolan, said the mission was ambitious and ahead of its time.
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The 2480-in-2100 tablet-laptop hybrid vision was ahead of its time, hampered by poor execution.
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The colorway was so ahead of its time and played off the design of the silhouette perfectly.
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"It was classic ahead-of-its-time technology," said Bejan, who now runs experiential marketing at Microsoft.
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Today, when it's the norm for composers to blend traditions, his approach seems ahead of its time.
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But to encounter "La Belle de Nuit" is to see a film stunningly ahead of its time.
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With its matte paper and vintage photographs, the catalog feels sweetly interwar yet ahead of its time.
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Last year, Brittany Brathwaite wrote for The Root about how the show was ahead of its time.
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Maybe even 21 years ahead of its time, depending on how you think VR is going now.
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One particular work that seems ahead of its time is Mildred Fischer's linen wall piece "Daydream," from 1965.
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I am thankful for this version of Cinderella that was ahead of its time in so many ways.
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That can sometimes mean a series that was ahead of its time, but Cop Rock isn't quite that.
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Swift's testimony in court made headlines because it was bold and even a little ahead of its time.
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Shadow of the Colossus was always ahead of its time, and now the technology has finally caught up.
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The work looks like a combination of bathroom graffiti and collage, and is completely ahead of its time.
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There's no doubt Google's first crack at making an optical head-mounted display was ahead of its time.
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In a way, RealPlayer was ahead of its time, one of the first to offer users this ability.
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It was also an experiment in urban farming that was a solid 30 years ahead of its time.
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Its metered paywall, while arguably ahead of its time, is strict, limiting nonsubscribers to one article a month.
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SARA We are challenging people to see this work as sophisticated and mature and ahead of its time.
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The memorial was in one way ahead of its time, making no distinctions between white and black soldiers.
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I knew my shit was way ahead of its time and was thrown like a Frisbee, you feel me?
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Kid A was released with an ahead-of-its-time foray into the world of pre-release album streams.
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"It was ahead of its time," says Terenzio, now a strategic communications director at the public affairs firm Kivvit.
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An unlikely element of Lennon and Ono's late-21969s peace campaign was an aural selfie, ahead of its time.
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Bachner: I think it was ahead of its time from an authenticity standpoint, because that's what's coming back now.
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It's a beloved name to those in the know and a product that seemed well ahead of its time.
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This prescient and mordantly funny science-fiction anthology is smart enough to be just barely ahead of its time.
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The iPhone X feels ahead of its time, perfect for a target audience of technology enthusiasts and obsessive photographers.
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Creating music that was ahead of its time, he said, had given him a kind of speculative financial security.
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But if GM was ahead of its time in some ways, it reflected it in others, especially around race.
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In other regards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show was merely in step with — rather than ahead of — its time.
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I don't think it was really ahead of its time because we're still not [giving women these types of roles].
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It is exhaustingly fragmentary and clatteringly noisy, but seems to be ahead of its time—and maybe our time, too.
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Like the Portable, the Newton was a powerful device that felt, in some sense, a little ahead of its time.
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Enjoy it in the context of music today, and I promise you will find it was ahead of its time.
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For women making films today, Rubin is nothing short of a foremother whose art was way ahead of its time.
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Even in Apple's vaunted product history, the Air stands out for being so far ahead of its time and competition.
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When Richard Marks was in 10th grade, his father opened a video game store that was ahead of its time.
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I feel it might've been still ahead of its time a little bit, especially with everything that's been happened recently.
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I read "American Psycho" for the first time recently, and this is certain: This novel was ahead of its time.
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"The film that was ten years ahead of its time is ten years old … (It's time!)," a newspaper ad proclaimed.
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The book is disarming in its accurate analysis of the world, quite literally coming a year ahead of its time.
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Trust The Simpsons to have predicted one of the biggest entertainment acquisitions in media history 303 years ahead of its time.
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You could say theOffice was ahead of its time — screenwriter and entrepreneur Aleks Horvat founded it more than 10 years ago.
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It was an ahead-of-its-time console in the early '80s that no doubt still has a niche hardcore following.
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Ellen Pao's lawsuit may have been ahead of its time, but her book could hardly come at a more critical time.
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Decades ahead of its time, it planted the seeds for punk, glam, goth, and a host of others genres to flourish.
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Johnston's longevity is in part due to the fact that it was so ahead of its time when it was created.
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While the Telecom Act was ahead of its time in the 1990s, 20 years later it is time for a refresh.
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The hospital was ahead of its time because the staff understood the importance of cleanliness in stopping the spread of germs.
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"The song was ahead of its time, it used stutter edits and manual plugins to compose the song," he points out.
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The campaign was well ahead of its time in using social media tools to get the word out among potential supporters.
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Don't expect Star Citizen — but be ready to be pleasantly surprised at a game that was clearly ahead of its time.
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The past was disgusting and an 18th century adoption of a plumbing system at Hogwarts is actually ahead of its time.
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" Mr. Andersen said of the magazine, "It was ahead of its time in terms of fake news fantasy-land alternative truth.
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"I feel like 'SOS' was a song that was probably ahead of its time for when he wrote it," Blacc said.
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VS: Your all-around impact was ahead of its time, for someone your size to have all the different skills you had.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)In Acer's case, the Iconia was clearly a case of a device that was ahead of its time.
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So ahead of its time was the design, you could almost believe the Zonda could have rolled out of Pagani's factory yesterday.
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You would be correct to say Glass was ahead of its time, a misfire as much as it was a teachable moment.
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However, Franklin's identity as a Black woman offers even more context into the song and why it was ahead of its time.
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The show was ahead of its time, creating parody-inspired characters like Ronald Grump and Donald Grump as early as the 1980s.
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The company was ahead of its time in other ways—the FP-6000 computer, built from the remains of DATAR, supported multitasking.
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The images, which never ran, were originally taken for After Dark, an entertainment magazine that Mitchell described as ahead of its time.
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The show's racial politics can feel dated from a 2016 vantage, but it was actually ahead of its time in many ways.
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I'd say one, the company was a little ahead of its time, quite frankly, in terms of working through some of that.
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This consumer-level 3D hardware was ahead of its time with advanced video acceleration, motion compensation and hardware sub-picture alpha blending.
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Compared with its contemporaries, Kodak's earliest logo design was ahead of its time, due to its clean lines and sans serif lettering.
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"The iPhone X feels ahead of its time, perfect for a target audience of technology enthusiasts and obsessive photographers," Mr. Chen wrote.
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It isn't very funny, either, which may have something to do with Bruce's material: It's simultaneously ahead of its time and dated.
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"I'm thrilled that common sense is prevailing," he said, before acknowledging that his idea may have been slightly ahead of its time.
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Where to stream: Hulu M.A.S.H was always ahead of its time, daring to go places few other series of the time would.
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"Sweater Weather" felt impressively ahead of its time upon its release in 2012, a year largely defined by maximalist pop and EDM.
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Indecent, playwright Paula Vogel's Broadway debut, recasts God of Vengeance as a triumphant, defiant showcase of queer love far ahead of its time.
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The Dash's design feels ahead of its time The problem with wireless earbuds is that they're tiny and could be easy to lose.
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"It was avant-garde; it was ahead of its time," said Ms. Rayer, the co-author of the book on the bikini's history.
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It just worked — as did Paul's ahead-of-its-time switching of Desmond and Molly's gender roles at the end of the song.
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"It's a trigonometric table, which is 245,256 years ahead of its time," said Daniel F. Mansfield of the University of New South Wales.
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Speaking truth to power is not necessarily transformative in all forms, but in the case of Ali, it was ahead of its time.
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It was so far ahead of its time that former employees say it was challenging to find suppliers who could execute on that vision.
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"The Hydroville is a small project which aims 21 years ahead of its time," Roy Campe, CMB's research and development manager, told CNN Business.
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Wayne wasn't exactly creating a trend or new reality on "I Feel Like Dying," but the candid approach was certainly ahead of its time.
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Maybe his rap musical idea was ahead of its time, as Hamilton is now a huge success — or maybe it was just truly terrible.
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In October, back with Soda Stereo, Dynamo appeared, an album that was ahead of its time, traveling between shoegaze, dream pop, psychedelia, and rock.
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It was really ahead of its time, but deals with England after a catastrophe and the whole country has reverted to wild nature again.
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Whatever you think of the show now, back then, the show was remarkably ahead of its time when it came to the LGBTQ community.
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People of color have not fared well in the sci-fi/horror genre, and in this alone, True Blood was ahead of its time.
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Some say the A380 came two decades too late, while others say that with increasing airport congestion, the plane is ahead of its time.
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A volume of her stunning, maddening poetry, way ahead of its time even though marred by the prejudices of its day, has since appeared.
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Stripped was way ahead of its time with a visual like 'Beautiful,'" which was so progressive and all about acceptance and authenticity," Chater explained.
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But as far as superhero films go, it was several years ahead of its time for deconstructing the excess of cinematic comic-book adaptations.
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This is the cheapest deal around, and a small price to pay for a game that is still very much ahead of its time.
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That's the bad news: Peasant is a beloved restaurant, well ahead of its time in its casual simplicity and cooking over an open fire.
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For just $15.99, you can taste for yourself whether the chips are an offense to Thanksgiving or Pringles is just ahead of its time.
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The film was a piece of art with a political message that was ahead of its time — black lives matter even in the hood.
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How does Jennifer's Body go from a failed sex romp to an ahead-of-its-time feminist cult classic in less than 10 years?
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The Slacker Portable may not have set the world on fire, but it was ahead of its time and internet radio is better for it.
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But it was arguably just ahead of its time, with Kurtz and director Walter Murch (another Lucas pal) helping to pioneer the dark, gritty reboot.
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M. Butterfly was undeniably ahead of its time, but Hwang believes its relevance in 2017 is directly tied to the way the country has regressed.
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He had good reason to be enthusiastic: the original Windows Phone of those days was radically different and in many ways ahead of its time.
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The whole Duo situation is embarrassing for Google considering how the technology involved in Hangouts seemed light years ahead of its time — almost five years.
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It could also be that the film's visual design was so far ahead of its time that some genre filmmakers still haven't even caught up.
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It's a film that's ahead of its time, addressing both violent harassment and how technology like live cams can outpace what society's ready to handle.
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While this car might be 22010, maybe 200, years ahead of its time, it's still exciting to see what an automaker like BMW fantasizes about.
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But if "Larry Sanders" was ahead of its time, it was also brilliantly of its time, the apogee of late-night TV's heat and influence.
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Rez was ahead of its time back in 2001, but its 2017 remake, Rez Infinite, has become one of the most impressive VR games around.
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Immeasurably ahead of its time—a sort of proto-Neopets—the Outer Space Zoo allowed players to choose animal companions and navigate a galactic habitat.
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"Maybe our feeling for a playoff is ahead of its time, like solar energy is right now," he told The New York Times in 22005.
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Other movies released in 1998 include "The Truman Show," which was ahead of its time with its story about the growing popularity of reality television.
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"What they wanted for you was way ahead of its time, including or maybe especially the rejection of conventional gender roles," Ms. Redmond assured me.
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Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes's art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.
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"Nasty," a defiant, feminine power anthem protesting unwanted male attention and disrespect, featured a video subtly ahead of its time in its messaging about consent.
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Indecent, by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, presents Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance as a triumphant, defiant showcase of queer love far ahead of its time.
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A lot of that is simply that we all feel special because we were in the know, using a platform that was ahead of its time.
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In this way, One Sings was at once ahead of its time and yet remains inherently tied to a history we have yet to fully grasp.
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Click here to view original GIFWas the Segway ahead of its time, or just an overhyped product that could have never lived up to the anticipation?
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It foundered after only two seasons because it was "ahead of its time" and turned out not to be financially viable, organizers said at the time.
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When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone in January 2007, he made a bold claim that the new product was five years ahead of its time.
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While I didn't win — it was 1999, so the concept might've been ahead of its time — the experience planted a long-germinating seed in my mind.
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The movie's industrial realism and sexual candor made it somewhat ahead of its time, and its gritty story was deepened by the authenticity of the performances.
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Published in 1970, Blume's novel — about the titular character seeking an identity while also experiencing the triumphs and pitfalls of puberty — was far ahead of its time.
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The company was founded back in 2000 ("The Company was WAYYYY ahead of its time," the spokesperson said) and has now raised a total of $50.7 million.
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For the show's 25th anniversary, we asked the team that dreamed up these ahead-of-its-time storylines — writers, co-creators, and network staff — to revisit Dinosaurs.
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But we know that it included a whole lot of wacky technology—the Moog was still brand-new, and the animation was ambitiously ahead of its time.
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See if this sounds familiar: An Elon Musk-founded company strikes on an idea ahead of its time and rises to prominence by revolutionizing a basic service.
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The project was way ahead of its time in many ways — it pulls craft into the mix and counters every idea about taste attached to High Modernism.
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Directed by Susan Seidelman based on a screenplay by Leora Barish, Desperately Seeking Susan is both ahead of its time, and aggressively, authentically rooted in the mid-eighties.
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Intel RealSense was in some ways an idea ahead of its time: its depth sensing technology didn't start feeling really necessary until virtual reality came on the scene.
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"As a woman of that generation, she wrote this piece that's so ahead of its time," Austin Wulliman, one of the JACK violinists, marveled in a recent interview.
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It was just a concept, but it was way ahead of its time, with countless manufacturers later ditching various display-obstructing elements from their phones, one by one.
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Ironically, though now considered a classic, "Walden" was ahead of its time and was not favorably reviewed by the Book Review when it was originally published in 1854.
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With the rise of smartphone gaming, Razer could shoot for an updated take on Sony's Xperia Play phone, which was a neat idea, but way ahead of its time.
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In 2011, the fifth-generation iPhone looked identical to its predecessor but shipped with Siri — Apple's voice assistant, which was ahead of its time but a little too ambitious.
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There's a sort of framing fiction for all these, that the games were put out by an obscure developer in the '80s that was well ahead of its time.
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In some ways, it was a game ahead of its time, as open-worlds have gone on to become a permanent fixture in a huge range of game genres.
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Its Sidekick was way ahead of its time, but the company had a tough time iterating as much of its time and energy was taken servicing the existing product.
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Stoddard cited Weismann's theory, which was profound and ahead of its time, and used it to advance the perverse and unfounded idea of the superiority of Nordic germ-plasm.
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Depending on which side of the Surface fence you sit on, its hypermobile design and experimental software was either its biggest flaw or an idea ahead of its time.
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Bauer persuaded the head nun at my all-girls Catholic high school to buy us computers and started teaching us to code, an idea way ahead of its time.
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BPs chief Lord John Browne famously called on the oil and gas industry to address climate change and pivoted the firm toward renewables an effort ahead of its time.
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Indeed, the most surprising thing about Second Life is not that it's still a thing, but that 13 years after its inception, it is still way ahead of its time.
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Built in the late 1920s with no expense spared, Oakman was ahead of its time in almost every respect, prioritizing accessibility and acceptance with spacious hallways and unobtrusive changing rooms.
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Taking a leadership role in yet another ahead-of-its-time venture will likely raise questions about Musk's ability to run the complex businesses — but he's proven doubters wrong before.
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Giroptic was founded in 2014 when it launched a Kickstarter campaign for its 360cam, a $3603 consumer device that in 2014 was ahead of its time and pushing the specs.
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Paradise was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, taking the nascent concept of a connected online world and fusing it to the bones of an arcade racer.
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It was an experimental device that was ahead of its time in some ways: it marked the first time a console maker had tried to sell full retail games digitally.
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Biosphere 2 was ahead of its time in showing people that they indeed live and are supported by the Earth's biosphere – the life support system of all life on Earth.
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Biosphere 2 was ahead of its time – but becomes more relevant as humans come to grips with the need to regulate our actions and take care of our biospheric home.
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It has gone down in gaming history as a system in many ways ahead of its time, and there are few gaming fanbases out there that remain quite so dedicated.
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As to Palm and webOS, that software was well ahead of its time, serving as the progenitor for many of today's best and most commonly used tropes in mobile design.
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They remain one of Chicago's finest entries into the annals of death, and their incorporation of crusty, HM2-fueled grime into their punishing missives was truly ahead of its time.
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When Netflix picked up Arrested Development in 2013, it was a triumphant swan song for a series which, a decade previously, was tragically canceled and years ahead of its time.
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There was an idea that the center was ahead of its time, and that if it had opened a little later it might have lasted longer and been more successful.
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Many of the other songs in the program were lesser-known show tunes by the team whose cynical, hard-edge view of the world was once ahead of its time.
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Though it took on a life of its own, the single proved too far ahead of its time—sampling laws and licensing practices weren't yet nailed down when "UFO" broke.
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In the United States, one of the first meat vending machines was introduced in a convenience store in Alabama in November 2011—but, alas, it was ahead of its time.
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Many think Google Glass was ahead of its time, although the technology wasn't advanced enough yet to justify wearing a Matrix-looking set of glasses on your head all day.
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"Cartier was so far ahead of its time," said George Somlo, a vintage watch dealer for nearly 50 years and owner of Somlo Antiques in the Burlington Arcade in London.
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While she has long made work that feels ahead of its time, in this digital age, she notes, our engagement with politics and photographs is prone to more rapid shifts.
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The performance's environmentalist ethos was well ahead of its time — particularly its anticipation of the need, today greater than ever, for rituals that address the psychic costs of ecological loss.
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The project gave viewers a prescient blend of artistry and progressive social messaging, and it produced content that was not only ahead of its time but still relevant in 2016.
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The book was well ahead of its time, introducing ingredients that have since become ubiquitous in Britain and the United States but were not popular in 1998: avocado, pomegranate, quinoa.
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But because it was so ahead of its time, Psychonauts found both critical and commercial success to be middling compared to creator Tim Schafer's other knockouts like Secret of Monkey Island.
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I must also give lots of kudos to the engineers, too, as the car was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, what with its four-wheel disc brakes.
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Shoot them and have America vote on which one they wanted to see go to series, which ended up being way ahead of its time because that's what Amazon started doing.
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It was all in a context of talking about why Sarah Connor — what Lynda created in 1991 — was, if not ahead of its time, at least a breakthrough in its time.
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The book, which she called a "prose poem novel" (and which is quite ahead of its time as a hybrid text), chronicles her affair with a British poet named George Barker.
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When the NDLEA was set up in 1990, it included an ahead-of-its time way of curbing drug smuggling and abuse: rehabilitation centers run under its "drug demand reduction" units.
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Tay Zonday, whose viral video "Chocolate Rain" was almost a decade ahead of its time (and before the "Ellen" show started explaining memes to older generations), expressed some concern over email.
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"The story of UFO 50 is that the games were all created in the 80's by a fictional company that was obscure but ahead of its time," the team explains.
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It was all in a context of talking about why Sarah Connor — what Linda created in 1991 — was, if not ahead of its time, at least a breakthrough in its time.
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Although aggressively set in the 1980s, it was ahead of its time in presenting and dealing with some issues of sex and gender, making a woman scientist the film's ultimate hero.
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"Ahead of its time" does not mean anything close to "is a viable product in 2016," however, thanks to the notoriously backwards approach to software espoused by Sony in the 2000s.
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Psychic is a visionary project from a pair of legends, and while it holds up to this day, it will continue to feel ahead of its time for years to come.
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It's 2002 all over again at Fashion Week in Paris ... where a bunch of NBA stars are proving the fashion from that 'Ali G' movie was way ahead of its time.
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Robert Zemeckis's zany, brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit, released 30 years ago on June 22, 1988, is remembered by the many who love it as a film ahead of its time.
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Zuora launched in 2007, long before most people had even heard of subscription revenue, but founder Tien Tzuo had a vision of a changing software market that was ahead of its time.
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In "Romance in Marseille," queer desire is simply a fact — an acknowledged part of the social landscape — in a way that makes the book seem all the more ahead of its time.
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The movie was an experiential take on being Black and sexy in Brooklyn on the eve of the 1990s and in many ways, She's Gotta Have It was ahead of its time.
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Blade Runner was set hugely ahead of its time' but 2019 is only a couple of years away and we're not even going to be close to that pretense in real life.
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On the contrary, Resident Evil's engagement with real life and players' actual fears is something from which contemporary games could learn from—to a small extent, it's still ahead of its time.
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Vital, innovative and lying in obscurity for too long, these life-size biblical portraits display a painterly frankness that seems to be calling modern art into being centuries ahead of its time.
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The Expressionist movement, founded in Germany in the early 20th century by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Erich Heckel, was largely considered to be ahead of its time.
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Once in a while, a record comes along that sound ions ahead of its time, like it was sent back from the future through some continuum portal to destroy our unworthy ears.
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Take Camera+ ($2.99), an app from Tap Tap Tap that now has over 14 million users and was ahead of its time with advanced settings people wanted but the native camera didn't offer.
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"We are innovators, pioneers, in fact credited largely with creating the collaborative robot category in the first place," Eckert told the Globe, adding that Rethink might also have been ahead of its time.
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Related: "Blade Runner 2049" review So while the technological morality explored in the orignal "Blade Runner" may have been slightly ahead of its time, Darling believes that theme is now right on time.
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The hourglass-shaped design, whose altitude would have surpassed that of the Empire State Building, was light years ahead of its time, incorporating a weblike steel exoskeleton to support the open floors within.
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The New York native's 2011 EP "Seven" wasn't necessarily ahead of its time; if anything, it harked back to the heyday of neo-soul and sometimes even further to R&B's golden age.
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Sometimes the results are illuminating; things that weren't clear about a movie at the time sharpen in retrospect, and sometimes a movie that was ahead of its time gets the credit it deserves.
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In some ways, the game was really ahead of its time; five years ago when it launched, far fewer people understood the concept of an AR game in the way that they do now.
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And if you squint, the Rolly was almost ahead of its time — is it really all that different to the BB-8 Sphero every Star Wars geek wanted under their Christmas tree last year?
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Apparently it was just ahead of its time, as Facebook went poll-crazy this year, adding them to Instagram Stories and Messenger group chat, as well as buying hit teen anonymous polling app tbh.
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If the content of his jokes seems dated, the form is ahead of its time, more in tune with the kinetic Tim and Eric-style of videos than what you find in a club.
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Action-packed and featuring an all-star voice case, "Gargoyles'" dense mythology and more dramatic tone was ahead of its time but the stories hold up much better than most of its contemporaries do.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Return to Oz (1985) Gap: 45 years "The Wizard of Oz" was ahead of its time when it was first released, and it is considered an all-time classic.
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Though her wicked sense of humor always felt ahead of its time, Fisher's background was steeped in Old Hollywood, an experience very few — maybe Michael Douglas, Isabella Rossellini, and a handful of others — can claim.
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Today, "Frasier" would be criticised for its lack of racial diversity and its occasionally uncomfortable jokes—particularly a long-running gag about Maris's eating disorder—but it was ahead of its time in some ways.
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Such a conversation would seem perhaps many decades ahead of its time, until you realize that, in many ways, purposefully lowering a human's body temperature until they pass out is something we already do routinely.
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It is not that the show was ahead of its time—more that it now reads like a vital warning, a visual message in a bottle washing up on this anxious shore of a year.
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Candlestick Park in San Francisco had a variety of surfaces, but in 1979 it was ahead of its time when it became the first of the all-artificial fields to go back to real grass.
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Rose was the first person to develop a nicotine patch, and he also pioneered an e-cig that he said was "a bit too far ahead of its time," and never made it to market.
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Streaming John Huston's "Beat the Devil," the Humphrey Bogart vehicle once advertised as a decade ahead of its time, is now an official senior citizen, having opened in New York 65 years ago this month.
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The W. Kamau Bell Legacy: A Talk Show Five Years Ahead of Its Time The diverse stand-ups on "Totally Biased," are making names for themselves now, comics whose style suits Trump-era pop culture.
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For me, at least, the choice is holding on tight to the one part that turned out to be the most progressive and ahead of its time — the part that least resembles its devious creator.
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Despite its age ("it's the oldest track on the record," he told THUMP), the cut sounds surprisingly current, as if it was ahead of its time then, and is now able to fully hit its stride.
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I certainly believe that the original's design was ahead of its time, and will fit more comfortably in 2016, a time in the gaming community in which the once niche roguelike genre has become surprisingly chique.
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Referring to Lear's sitcom "One Day at a Time," Rita Moreno -- who co-stars in the new Netflix version -- explained how the original show was ahead of its time, dealing with issues such as sexual harassment.
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There he realized some of his own most ambitious theater pieces, and also presented a solo by the painter Marcia Marcus, now obscure, who has a way-ahead-of-its-time self-portrait at the Grey.
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Though it only ran for one season, this charming, ahead-of-its-time dramedy — about a black Ivy League professor inheriting a New Orleans restaurant — won three Emmys and has a small but fervent fan base.
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One of the most striking new sights in this area is "The Moon," an abstract landscape by the Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Amaral, from 1928 but decades ahead of its time and also acquired this year.
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I don't think my vagina had any dust in it, let alone large dust, but it's good to know that the Nokia 3310 was thinking ahead of its time when it comes to grime-protecting these suckers.
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The Pixar Image Computer, released in 1986 around the time that Steve Jobs had purchased the company, was far ahead of its time, but could only be afforded in a few contexts, including in the medical space.
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Whether the Palm Pre was truly ahead of its time, or whether elements of the interface had been plucked out of a carefully planned Cupertino 10-year roadmap will be a story for Valley historians to unpick.
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It is a work both ahead of its time (the silence, same-sex couples, structural games with missing pieces) and very much of its time (echoes of George Balanchine's late 1950s experiments, a '50s atmosphere of alienation).
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"The Left Hand of Darkness," Ursula K. Le Guin Forced to pick a single sci-fi novel, I'll go with this because, in ways even beyond most sci-fi, it is so far ahead of its time.
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Before every pop star was rushing to pander to LGBTQ fans, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" wasn't a case of coy queer-baiting: It was a confident and technicolor rallying cry, arguably lightyears ahead of its time.
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In many ways, the XFL was ahead of its time, if only because it was a decidedly Donald Trump-ian vision of professional football in America—big, dumb, loud, violent, gaudy, slipshod, scantily clad, and extremely on television.
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Snaps actually started out as an augmented reality company called GoldRun, but Brucculeri said it was a little ahead of its time — he joined in 2014 to help the company switch directions, eventually settling on its current model.
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Lytro was founded more than a decade ago, and has, for much of that time, been an ahead-of-its time technology in search of a problem to solve, all while burning through quite a bit of cash.
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The commission was "decades ahead of its time" on the topic of drugs, Bryce Pardo and Peter Reuter write in "Narcotics and Drug Abuse: Foreshadowing 50 Years of Change," their new paper in the journal Criminology & Public Policy.
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If activists succeed in making Virginia the 38th, the ERA will serve as a reminder that legislation that is ahead of its time can find its moment, so long as supporters have the intestinal fortitude to press forward.
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But while "Demoiselles" enabled Cubism, which spread through Europe and beyond in a matter of years, "The Birth of the World" went almost immediately underground; it was too far ahead of its time to have an immediate effect.
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Lee's ideas (and Galavant) might have just been a little ahead of its time; today's streaming era puts a far bigger emphasis on word-of-mouth success and cultural mindshare than it does hard numbers about who's watching.
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But even if we argue that "Bright Day" is more immediately relevant now than it was when it first opened, is it also revealed to be a truly good play that suffered from being ahead of its time?
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In "Network," an ahead-of-its-time cautionary tale about the corrupting power of television, Ford can be briefly seen on a TV in the control room before the screen flickers over to the eccentric newsman Howard Beale.
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I don't care that it has a 17 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, you and I both know it was ahead of its time and will one day be celebrated as the single greatest piece of festive cinema.
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"I put a lot of time and effort into it, but it was only ever functional for a couple of hours on two occasions" Although Esc never took off, there's no question it was ahead of its time.
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Total Score: 214 Though too grounded in reality to ever be the winner of this contest, I would be remiss to not mention the ahead-of-its-time, slow-boil comedy centered around Hill family and its cultural impact.
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With a tentative agreement to be purchased by its sister company, Tesla Motors, SolarCity is going all in on a strategy that some analysts say is ahead of its time: pairing solar systems with the automaker's energy-storage batteries.
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It ran on a 32-bit ARM architecture, which meant it ran a version of the operating system called Windows RT. Depending on who you ask, the Surface RT was either a terrible idea or ahead of its time.
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Esprit was a brand that, both aesthetically and internally, was ahead of its time, with its bold use of color and prints, its inclusive approach to campaign imagery, and its acknowledgement of issues like sustainability and longevity in fashion.
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In a way it reminded me more of the original Zelda than any of its successors; the extreme freedom afforded the player in the first game turns out to have been a concept employed well ahead of its time.
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"Big Brother is an incredible success on the CBS Television Network and has always been ahead of its time when it comes to fan engagement," Marc DeBevoise, president and chief operating officer of CBS Interactive, said in a statement.
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The xx's self-titled debut album was so ahead of its time that the band itself had some trouble catching up to it, but regardless, it hinted at the UK trio's abilities to navigate the fourth dimension at will.
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In many ways the PlayStation Vita was ahead of its time when it launched in 2011, offering gamers 3G mobile data, multimedia playback, a touch screen, and many of the features smartphone users access today on a daily basis.
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Her 2009 dark horror-comedy Jennifer's Body, written by Diablo Cody, was ahead of its time — its release met mixed reviews and middling box office, but over time, it slowly picked up a cult audience who came to appreciate its daring.
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Generally considered to be the first 'serious' science fiction film, Woman in the Moon was far ahead of its time and was the first time that the nascent field of rocket science was presented to the masses in popular media.
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Trashed by critics after its release, the film has since been lauded as technically groundbreaking and thematically ahead of its time, as it revolves around the then-taboo subject of an interracial love triangle—and an adulterous one at that.
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Its largely glass exterior hangs off the building like a curtain, while a central load-bearing frame provides structural support: a technique far ahead of its time but later ubiquitous in the glassy modernist towers of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Obviously, the flight model had to be completely hypothetical as Rune and his team were trying to emulate a still experimental aircraft, but for 1997, the game was to many ahead of its time, both content-wise and for graphics.
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Although it's easy to get lost in the story given "Gospel's" lax attention to plot, watching the ensemble rejoice and mourn together is a reminder of how Breuer's philosophy of collaboration in theater was so far ahead of its time.
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Would you rather not hear about it from that ... Look, I'm not saying that I'm the perfect narrator or source for the book, but what you can't tell me was that that book wasn't right and wasn't very much ahead of its time.
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When it was released it all felt so dated and now it feels ahead of its time right on down to its cyberpunk-tinged streetwear design cover and Holger in the corner yelling in a white hat like Mike Love or shit.
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Part of the appeal was that it seemed ahead of its time — it could do things like show you notifications and help you control your phone's music, which would become table stakes for smartwatches made by other companies in the years to come.
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Spanning a period of 50 years, from the artist's early experiments in abstraction to her later figuration, the exhibition comprises 36 works in various media, including ceramics and textiles, and 279 drawings that reveal an output that was way ahead of its time.
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While ahead of its time, Murphy Brown still achieved widespread popularity and accrued an astounding number of prestigious awards (18 Emmys, three Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Directors Guild Awards, and two Writers Guild Awards) in its 10-year run.
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Thalmic's Myo technology was ahead of its time; the interaction model it pioneered wasn't really a natural fit for everyday computing, and it was still relatively early days for the consumer drone market, which is another demo that helps Myo generate early excitement.
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Then there's the ahead-of-its-time blend of reality TV and satire to which Nathan Fielder owes an enormous debt, The Joe Schmoe Show, which had a regular dude cluelessly compete against paid actors in what he thought was a reality contest.
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With its references to off-world colonies -- where humans get "a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure" -- "Blade Runner" was ahead of its time in introducing the idea that there are consequences to humankind's actions on Earth.
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In 2012, Del Rey's debut album, Born to Die, delivered a complex satire of American neediness far ahead of its time, which combined babylike vocals with crushing instrumentals and lyrics rife with literary references to everything from Walt Whitman to Vladimir Nabokov.
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The original film, with a complex, thoughtful and philosophical tone baked in as much as action and a fantastical backdrop, was a bit ahead of its time in terms of the simpler, good-versus-evil fare that characterized fantasy fare three decades ago.
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The book offered guidance on topics ranging from writing a proposal to selling subsidiary rights, as well as "fighting the fear of hustling" and, in a chapter that was decades ahead of its time, how to handle self-publishing, from design to distribution.
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As ghastly as the crimes are, these early stages of the case -- and even the ahead-of-its-time detective work -- don't give the actors much to play, including Geraghty as Roosevelt, who by all rights should be an enormously colorful figure.
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Even if "Someone To Love Me (Naked)" isn't the best song in the world, it's a cool move because it's a remix of Diddy Dirty Money's song of the same name from that group's undercooked but ahead-of-its-time Last Train to Paris.
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But it's still worth checking out an episode of the show (or, really, just a few clips on YouTube) to see a series so far ahead of its time that TV is only really just now figuring out what a musical drama might look like.
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Director David Cronenberg's trippy 1999 riff on virtual reality video games was ahead of its time, and not just because it could serve as a kind of prequel for Black Mirror's own story of a careless young man and a gaming trial gone wrong.
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He goes on to explain: But the general idea seems to be reserving judgement and endorsing a sex-positive look toward sex workers, which, once again, puts the song a decade or so ahead of its time in terms of popular liberal social causes.
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AH: I think having people here together, engaged in the discussions that have been engaged in, is very useful and very productive, provided that we also follow it up with action, and I think Davos has been ahead of its time in identifying trends.
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Already an Oscar-winning editor for "In the Heat of the Night," Mr. Ashby began directing with "The Landlord" (on Thursday), a portrait of gentrification in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that was perhaps ahead of its time (1970) and is tough to find on DVD.
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" Heads of other leagues also offered words of praise Wednesday for Stern, including WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, who said his "steadfast commitment to women's sports was ahead of its time and has provided countless opportunities for women and young girls who aspire to play basketball.
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Although virtual reality never quite caught on in the way that "Strange Days" seemed to predict — a never-sleazier Ralph Fiennes stars as a dealer of illicit V.R. fantasies — the film holds up exceptionally well; it was both of and ahead of its time.
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Unfortunately, it didn't quite land, bringing in a pittance at the box office, only $6 million domestically in the US. But that's likely less because it was too ahead of its time, and more because of the way it was handled by its producers.
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At the famously-ahead-of-its-time General Magic, the computing power wasn't there to build the kind of smartphone precursor that the founders had in mind, said Joanna Hoffman, who was vice president of marketing, and went on to the founding team of the Apple Macintosh.
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But if SVU was ahead of its time on its treatment of rape and consent, it lagged behind public opinion in its treatment of crime in its first decade, with DAs threatening tortuous solitary confinement and detectives joking about the assaults suspects would endure in prison.
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But the story of Minimalism, in particular, has been dominated by straight white men — La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass — and Eastman is a vital addition to their company, even if his take on the style was idiosyncratic and perhaps ahead of its time.
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In 2012, Kirsten Bischoff, co-founder of the micro social network HATCHEDit, warned that Path could easily become another "excellent tool that was ahead of its time," unable to compete with Facebook's exploding user base–at that point, gaining about 50 million active monthly users per quarter.
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It kind of reminds me of the positioning of the original MacBook Air, or the new MacBook, when those two devices were first introduced – tomorrow's tech, available today, but for a bit more money and with a few trade-offs as a result of being ahead of its time.
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"Olo was ahead of its time when it envisioned a digital ordering engine in 2005 and through years of developing its product and building relationships with leading restaurant brands, has established itself as the industry leader," Colin Neville, vice president of the Raine Group, said in a statement.
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"New York's abortion law, once ahead of its time, for too long has been woefully out of date, causing confusion for providers and leaving women without the full extent of their constitutionally-protected right to access abortion," said Andrea Miller, President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health.
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The record was released decades ahead of its time, before "plantfluencers" was a term any plant collectors used to describe themselves and before the vinyl resurgence and the internet would create the conditions in which a rare dollar-bin L.P. could go for low hundreds in the resale market.
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"Action" debuted in 21, placing it a few years (and a few bleeps) too ahead of its time to last longer than a single season on broadcast TV. But the audacity of its satire, which skewered the very Hollywood industry that created it, is still surprising, even now.
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"It was very much ahead of its time," Mr. Balzano said, with features like nine-foot ceilings and building amenities like a children's playroom and an indoor pool on the top floor — unheard of today, because developers now put the most expensive units at the top of the building.
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Launched on the eve of the global economic crisis and well before climate scientists officially declared that a bulk of the world's oil reserves must be left in the ground to limit global temperature increases to 230 degrees Celsius or less, the Yasuní-ITT initiative now seems ahead of its time.
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Aided by a media team that was ahead of its time in understanding the power of television and marketing for candidates — a young Roger Ailes was an adviser — the Nixon campaign took the antiwar demonstrations and race riots of 1968 and used them to its advantage by promising to restore order.
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Richard D. James Album is one of the most thoroughly realized electronic albums ever made; listening to it in 2016, it seems not just ahead of its time, but ahead of a more colorful and polyrhythmic era we're either still waiting on or unable to conjure up in our collective post-pubescent mind.
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But it was ahead of its time, not just in its gameplay, but also in its attempt to have video games tackle to the low-key moments of real life, that modern day indie games would later explore (its small-town setting is not dissimilar to Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, for instance).
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Now there are five companies in search of the mythical $35 price point for OTT pay TV. There is a "Light" that never goes out The Talking Heads' album "Remain in Light" was way ahead of its time when it arrived in 1980 — almost 40 years ahead — pioneering African polyrhythms, sampling, looping and other techniques.
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Messaging in the West was relatively feature-free, but Hill could see what was coming around the corner by looking at WeChat, the Chinese app that was well ahead of its time, and that — plus what her target audience was already using — was enough to convince her of how she needed to build her business.
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A movie ahead of its time, The Truman Show gets points for predicting some version of the technological Big Brother hellscape we've found ourselves in, but it also stinks because oh my god we get it this movie resonated with you as a kid and you think about it when you tweet and stuff.
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Woman in the Moon was far ahead of its time and anticipated a number of developments in rocket science, including the countdown to launch sequence, launching the rocket from a pool of water (launch pads are normally wet today to dissipate the heat), and the use of a multistage rocket to reach the moon.
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Omnifone, founded in 2003 in London, was one of the first companies to try to build a business around unlimited music streaming services for mobile devices — a move that was ahead of its time, coming as it did years before Apple and Android smartphones changed the whole market and when mobile networks were still painfully slow.
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Norman Bel Geddes in 1932 proposed floating an airstrip in New York Harbor, where it would rotate to follow favorable winds and connect to Battery Park by an underwater moving sidewalk; in '49, Bel Geddes also designed a stadium for the Dodgers with an ahead-of-its-time retractable roof and, a decade before AstroTurf, synthetic grass.
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Lancôme's Dual Finish Foundation ($2130), released in 25, featured a morphing texture that was ahead of its time: The compact could be applied wet, like a liquid base, or dry like a matte powder — a feat that was "huge," says the makeup artist Sandy Linter, who frequently worked with models Christie Brinkley and Patti Hansen in the '280s.
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The concert contains new music from his album "Reality" along with a generous serving of hits and favourites from his archive -- a unique body of work that contains ground-breaking music, often ahead of its time, sometimes challenging audiences to catch up with its creator, and many musical anthems which can seem as fresh now as when they were written.
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Her rhetoric was ahead of its time considering the pro-enforcement sentiment that swept Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE into the White House in 2016.
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It is not what I would call a good book, although its combination of cornball macho grandiosity ("I've always contended that I psychologically beat Jordan") and crocodile-tear smarm—Esquinas said he wrote the book because "it was right for my recovery from my addiction to gambling and the right way to reach out to a friend I perceived had the same problem"—it probably qualifies as ahead of its time.
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If one can forget the bad acting, overlook the clumsy cuts that leave the story in mid-action, and blink through some of the overblown aspects of the narrative, such as the comparisons drawn between the scientist-savior Marial Novalic and Jesus Christ, it is still possible to be highly entertained by the cinematic brilliance of Gance's End of the World, a work far ahead of its time.
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The Gay Best Friend character can be done right, like George in My Best Friend's Wedding (a film ahead of its time) who turns out to be the unlikely hero of the film, or Sam in 2018's Blockers who gets her own coming-of-age story as she wrestles with her sexuality and losing her virginity on prom night with a sincerity rarely afforded to teen girls on screen or gay characters, let alone both.
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On a fairly regular basis, just as a point of principle, fans will express retroactively righteous anger about "Run Away With Me's" lack of nominations at the 2016 Grammys — even going so far as to circulate fake quotes from the Recording Academy explaining why it was snubbed ("When a song is so ahead of its time, it's unfair to say it was released during the eligibility period, and that's exactly what happened with 'Run Away With Me'").
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The primary paradox of the picture is that Marsyas, despite his placement front and center, doesn't dominate the image: he may bisect the composition straight down the middle, but the interlocking heads, torsos, and arms on either side of him subsume his tortured form — which is partitioned at the waist between the dark fur of his satyr's goat legs and the fleshy humanity of his upper body — into an all-over design with no focal point, a device well ahead of its time.
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CEO Eddie Lampert acknowledges the long odds, and some of his errors, in a rare sit-down with Vanity Fair: More highlights from the Vanity Fair piece: Lampert says that his disastrous 2004 merger of Kmart with Sears was designed to combine Sears product with Kmart's off-mall locations, in order to better compete with Wal-Mart: His early decision to invest more in e-commerce than in physical stores either was an idea ahead of its time, or just poorly executed: Lampert declined to discuss his 2003 kidnapping, except to say of his abductors: Former Sears Canada CEO Mark Cohen has some harsh words for Lampert: Also notable is that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a longtime Sears director and Lampert's college roommate, declined comment.
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