Photography then becomes very important, I'd take pictures for people to see the work.

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And so scientific exchanges, medical exchanges, working together on development issues -- all of that becomes very important.

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The third level, symbolic, is where human virtuosity becomes very important.

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Eventually, as the market matures and customers understand the problem and the need for a solution, indirect sales model becomes very important from a scalability perspective.

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This becomes very, very important as sensors start being placed into more and more inanimate objects, such as lamps, sprinklers, running shoes, thermostats, toll booths, vending machines, shark-detecting buoys and just about everything else.

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But when you look at Miss Judy's classes year after year after year, then that difference that each child - what he gains or loses each year with Miss Judy -that becomes statistically significant and, in fact, very important.

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But the runaway success of the Wii highlights some trends that will be very important over the next decade, as the gaming industry matures and becomes more mainstream.

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But when all the bodies are very massive, such as stars in a galaxy, this non-linearity becomes important.

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