Paired with voice recognition software, the driver could even ask the system for directions or more details.
So you could, for example, ask the system to find you a lawyer in Los Angeles or a fly fisherman in Scotland and learn that your boss's brother fits the bill.
In the last few weeks, I have had some people inside the system ask me why the programs in place are not working.
It is pretty easy to ask the intrinsic system a question simply, like Kurzweil does before sleep (though, I often do this mid-day and wide awake), literally, ask a question.
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The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires.
We think that if we put the same people in a room who created the existing system and ask them to innovate, we might not come out with very innovative solutions.
Agnelli is angry that Conte was not cleared and added: "The confirmation of his suspension is an injustice which should prompt the entire footballing system to ask itself questions, " he added.
Or-in a true display of technology integration-viewers who were set up to use the department's videoconferencing system could ask their questions live, as if they were in the same room as the speaker.
Of course, our teams, all the time, as I put it, kick the tires, push the system, ask the difficult questions -- what are the other options, what are the other things that we could do?
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The forums will bring together diverse groups of people all over the country who have a stake in reforming our health care system and ask them to put forward their best ideas about how we bring down costs and expand coverage for American families.
But he added: "This is a really good opportunity for our system and the secretary of state to look at our examination system and ask whether it is rigorous enough, whether it's credible enough, whether what's happened over the last few years in terms of resits, early entries and the modular approach to to examination is actually raising standards".
Why not use that money to build on the NHS and to employ more doctors and consultants so they can see patients within the system, they ask.
Major companies look at our cities and ask whether the public school system can produce the quality of people they need to operate their machinery, program their computers, even simply answer their phones.
So following a meeting of the House Committee of the House of Lords, and at their request, I have today written to the senior salaries review body to ask them to review the system of financial support in the House of Lords to increase accountability, transparency and reduce cost.
Rarely do politicians ask voters to use their own System Two to truly understand and evaluate an issue.
"But what the chancellor went on to say is you should ask other questions about our welfare system, " said Mr Cameron.
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But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
Ask Sony, whose online-gaming system, albeit delivered through the cloud, is hosted on its own servers.
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To protect against this, they say, we need a system where physicians have to ask patients for permission to access their information.
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The criminal justice system and some local councils ask that new recruits say if they are freemasons, but the drive to force those already in public life to reveal themselves has lost momentum probably because the society has too.
And it is to ask the question whether the global financial system, and the economies of developed countries like Britain, would be in such dire straights if banks had been subject to a simple leverage ceiling, limiting how much banks could lend in total, irrespective of the nature of their loans, as a multiple of their capital.
When he wanted to change the system, he didn't ask anyone's permission, he simply wrote to the government and told them.
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And then we should ask ourselves: should we overhaul an entire system of public education when 77% of American parents are happy with the one we have now?
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But to the naysayers calling for a recession this year, I acknowledge that the business cycle is getting longer in the tooth, but ask: Where are the excesses in the system?
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced that the VA has first begun a massive outreach effort to contact female veterans and ask them to share their experiences with the system.
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But when you ask how anti-reformers would change the system they suggest: we should pay teachers better, implement smaller class sizes, treat teachers like professionals by making the profession more exclusive, stop demonizing teachers, etc.
If you are thinking about using a cloud-based system for CRM or accounting, ask the tough questions up front about how you can get your data back if the company goes out of business or if you simply want to choose a different solution.
Instead of looking for the earliest signs of industrialisation, then, perhaps the thing to do is to let the imagination run riot and ask what technology might do to a solar system if it had tens or hundreds of thousands of years to work its magic.
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And as with any other huge, complex system, sometimes it breaks (just ask Con Ed).
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All that remains is for someone to ask Mitt Romney and Barack Obama which mobile operating system they each prefer.
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