The text message you receive from your rosebush, in this case, is really an invitation to a smarter world, a world where ordinary objects are transformed and enlightened so they can serve you better.
The man was a unique genius who transformed the world because he believed he could.
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They founded gdgt as a product-focused site in 2008 and, over the ensuing years, transformed it into a comprehensive database of the world's gadgetry, all that backed by an active community of people brought together by an innate love for the hottest in tech.
Poindexter, enthralled by the history, restored the ruined forts and transformed the ranch into a world-renowned resort.
She recognised the need to compete in a world which has been transformed by always-on touchscreen devices of all shapes and sizes.
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig Christine, a young girl working in a postoffice in post-World War I Austria, has her life transformed when a rich aunt invites her to a resort in the Swiss Alps.
For example, a team of ASU students took their passion for assisting rural communities in the developing world and transformed it into Safe SIPP, a social venture that provides clean water in developing communities.
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Half a century after Beatlemania rocked the world, the once gritty English port has transformed itself into a giant emporium of Beatles-related sights, a dramatic turnaround from the 1980s when the only object memorialising the band was a modest statue in the city centre.
They've also transformed a patchwork of urban landscapes around the world.
But in the years since, a series of innovations have transformed not only the world of telecommunications but also the way we live, work and play.
No one has been better than Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker at explaining how Thailand transformed itself from a sleepy backwater to the world's fastest growing economy -- and subsequently ignited the Asian meltdown.
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"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself, " Mr. ElBaradei said in a statement.
The public sector expanded only in the 1950s, after a century of astonishing economic growth driven by free trade and free markets (from 1850 to 1950, average incomes multiplied eightfold, as a poor peasant society was transformed into one of the world's richest countries).
The "Defiance" world is set in the year 2046 on a transformed Earth ravaged by conflict and alien attacks.
Over a few short decades Hong Kong was transformed from one of the world's poorest places into one of its richest, as it remains (see chart 3).
Over the next three years, the entertainment district at Florida's Walt Disney World will be transformed into Disney Springs, a new shopping, dining and entertainment area that will double the size of the existing complex.
Rajiv Shah: Global philanthropy has played a critical role in the history of development, and is responsible for catalyzing a number of the breakthrough innovations that have transformed lives across the developing world.
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Since its privatisation Vale, which the government often berates for not adding value to the raw materials it exports, has transformed itself from a medium-sized conglomerate to one of the world's biggest mining companies.
It all started with a dream, and I feel grateful to have witnessed lives transformed around the world.
While its longest serving prime minister, Dr. Mohamad instituted policies that transformed Malaysia from an impoverished, third world country, to a first class, modern nation.
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For years, media leaders, editors and not a few reporters tried to ignore the coming digital storm, fiddling while technology transformed their world.
Thanks to more than 40 such deals in the past five years, WorldCom has transformed itself into the world's largest provider of Internet services, and a big force in local, long-distance and international telephony.
Think about how everything has been transformed by our capacity to see the world as it is, but also to imagine a world as it could be.
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In barely 12 years, Mr. Musk has transformed SpaceX from a tiny, little-known startup with offices close to a strip mall into a world-class aerospace company that made history in late 2010 by sending the first commercially owned and operated spacecraft into orbit.
In global finance, the Bank for International Settlements should be transformed from a discussion forum for central bankers into a policy co-ordinating body, turning it into the world's central bank with a mandate to keep inflation stable and low worldwide.
The world's oceans were at their hottest in recorded history, and Katrina was rapidly transformed into a raging demon.
His conjecture, made in 1904, was that in this four-dimensional world, all closed three-dimensional surfaces that are simply connected could be transformed to look like a three-dimensional sphere.
Besides identity rising in significance in a cloud, mobile and social world, the traditional concept of identity is going to change and will be radically transformed itself by those three forces.
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The restaurant scene is booming, neighbourhoods are being transformed and at the same time, Istanbul offers world renowned ancient architecture and museums, food fit for a sultan and enough sights and activities for a lifetime of visits.
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