In July Toyota unveiled a concept bicycle, the PXP, with a thought-controlled gear-shift mechanism.
But in 1985, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, came up with a thought experiment that might do this.
We have taken this to the point that it is the management of knowledge has become a significant drive in many organizations, with a thought to be able to transform any practice or item of knowledge into an asset.
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Novy-Marx concludes with a thought experiment where he substitutes GASB accounting with an identical system where future liabilities are discounted at the muni rate (after all, the risk of non-payment to pensioners is no different, or in most case lower, than the risk to bondholders).
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At Vassar College, in the 1980s, the argument was usually framed with a thought-experiment: Imagine that you wake up in a hospital bed, hooked up to a machine and soon realize that if you disconnect yourself from the machine, the person in the next bed will die.
With a little thought, one can put together a mini cellar that not only meets all your wine needs, but will expand your knowledge and shine a little ray of light on the magic of understanding how wine evolves in the bottle, improving and mellowing with age.
With a little thought, brick and mortar retailers can turn showrooming from a negative into a positive.
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Let me start with a deep thought: You are the most important person in the world.
As I stared at the four remaining faces, I was struck with a strange thought.
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Each is run separately with its own budgets and goals with nary a thought of the bigger entity.
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The teacher was arrested on Monday along with a man thought to be her husband and both have been released on bail.
In closing, I would like to leave you with a final thought, which goes back to the reason I wrote my book The Chinese Dream.
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With Microsoft trying to please its legacy customers, and Apple abandoning its own with barely a thought, bloatation had become a sore point between the two.
We can demonstrate the inherent conflict between the pursuit of equality by President Obama and the Left, and the economic growth that most benefits the middle class and the poor, with a simple thought experiment.
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George Arzt, a consultant who once worked for Mr. Liu but is now unaffiliated with a campaign, thought that meant his 15% share of the vote in a matchup with the other candidates was likely the highest level his support could reach.
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You want to enter the interview with a well-thought out message that answers the most basic questions that might come up during a discussion of the subject.
By marrying a fundraising approach predicated on psychographics with solid thought leadership, a nonprofit will be able to dramatically raise its stature with near pinpoint precision.
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We end with a New Hampshire memory and a thought on how time moves.
As operating systems go, it's probably the nicest around, with a well-thought-through user interface.
As McCain bantered with reporters, his paragraphs were often interrupted mid-thought with a loud request for Buchanan, usually concerning the temperature.
I've never worked with a muse or thought, Oh, I am so inspired by her, because I'm not doing the collection for one woman.
Sacha from Blackpool struggled with being thought a girl through school.
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At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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In fact there was a day back in 1977 when I woke up as a politician with no thought of being anything else, but went to bed that night about to become a political interviewer.
Guys, if you are deep into watching sports, meat and potatoes, and never having to bother yourself with a new or original thought for the rest of your life, don't even think of marrying a career woman.
Because the department was so riddled with problems, some thought a true outsider was needed, someone with no history in New Orleans and no allegiances inside the department.
Included with it is a small silk flag with 46 stars, thought to have been donated by Morey during World War I, and a gold cross Littrell added.
Ms. Ullman explains that on one occasion in her career as a software engineer she tried to fix some code with what she thought was a tiny change and she succeeded in bringing the whole system down.
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There are losing political candidates and their staffs who, like my son, a sophomore, can ease their pain with the thought that they have a chance to fight again another day.
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