If history is any indication, all new infrastructure quickly will become indispensable to the Chinese middle class.
For travelers who practically live in their cars, and have to find their ways to remote meeting spots, GPS has become indispensable.
The social media become indispensable tools for dispelling rumors and correcting misinformation.
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"Mobile computing and broadband connectivity have already become indispensable tools in the road warrior's arsenal, " said Fram Akiki, senior director of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.
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Interpreters have become indispensable figures at most Paris soup kitchens.
For many it has become indispensable: in a poll conducted by Gallup last month, half of the respondents said they would switch banks if theirs stopped offering its debit card.
Ensuring affordable high-speed Internet connections and equally affordable access to electronic scientific information and data for all the world's universities and research institutions has become indispensable for informed decision-making and knowledge production.
It may be some time before the technique can routinely outperform a dog's nose, but may become indispensable for cases in which a grave may be hidden beneath more than just soil.
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Making things worse, he then goes on to say how important it is for all of us to become indispensable, for not to be indispensable is tantamount to economic and career suicide.
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America will have no official say in the permanent constitution, though it will doubtless hope that many of the liberal values written into the interim document will have become indispensable by then.
Since Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) OS handheld organizers took off, personal digital assistants have become indispensable geek-gear, and now one can do almost anything on the things: keep schedules, play video games, or trade soup recipes.
DVRs have become an indispensable technology for consumers by helping users time-shift their TV and recommend new shows.
If it is to become truly indispensable, it must offer not just a process, but also a product that meets today's needs.
For journalists trying to disentangle the claims and counter-claims of politicians against hourly and daily deadlines, it has become an indispensable source of anti-spin.
With his Telugu Desam party's stunning success in India's recent parliamentary elections, Naidu has become an indispensable component in the 24-party ruling National Democratic Alliance.
Social media has become an indispensable part of the music business.
The next development in the evolution of long-term loyalty is likely to come through creating value-driven relationships in which brands become economically indispensable to their customers.
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The first was that the United States had become the indispensable nation, at least when it came to stopping a humanitarian disaster of the kind that occurred in Bosnia.
As more and more useful, content-rich cooking information for the home chef has migrated online and into apps like "Epicurious, " tablets have become as indispensable in the kitchen as a sharp knife.
For many of us, the iPhone has become an indispensable communication device -- and now a new app developed by Lapka can measure environmental radiation and whether or not your food is organic, turning your smartphone into a tool for good health as well.
In 1965 Lewis Coser, an eminent sociologist, argued that the modern university had become an indispensable part of a civilised society, a place that provides salaried intellectuals with a milieu conducive to the exchange of ideas and, uniquely, a licence to disagree with those who pay them.
Taken as a whole, it has grown to become an almost indispensable resource for planning a trip to Scotland, with dispatches from Edinburgh to the Inner Hebrides.
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Since Diners Club introduced the first universal credit card in 1950, an 8.5-by-5.5-cm piece of plastic has become for millions a modern symbol of identity and an indispensable tool of spending.
So, to summarize, your business will thrive if you can solve customer problems, become easy to work with, offer irresistible value, and make your company indispensable to your customers.
With the enormous proliferation of museums, collectors, auction houses, galleries and the indispensable tool of the internet, market information is now available worldwide and has become increasingly transparent.
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