lifework

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Wiener’s lifework and his failure to predict its consequences are intimately bound up in the idea of an impending technological singularity.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2019

Since this has become sort of my lifework over the last two and a half years I have to wake up every morning optimistic.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2019

"They feel that Disney is undoing their lifework of conserving wild animals for future open seasons."

From Time • Aug. 8, 2017

He had properly assessed the components of her identity, the parts of her great labor, the variety of her lifework.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2016

Now tell me why we have no papers, no printed materials written by this great artist about his lifework?

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett