Not only does technology change rapidly, but his political masters make up their minds slowly.
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But while disruptive technologies often start out looking dramatically inferior to incumbent technologies, this tends to change rapidly.
At some point, the political environment could change rapidly, and what was once an impossibility becomes easy, even expected.
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What I love most about English is the anarchy of the language, its ability to evolve and change rapidly.
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Circumstances change and change rapidly, and the career students think they are preparing for today will simply disappear in ten years.
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But that calculation could change rapidly if the time is not used well by Greece and, even more, by other euro-area countries.
Genes change slowly, over many generations, while the diversity of phonemes amid a population group can change rapidly as language evolves.
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The tools and technologies we use to reach our goals change rapidly.
Mr Annan acknowledges that the situation on the ground is beginning to change rapidly and he calls for all parties to exercise maximum restraint.
During the flight we pass a thousand feet over the wetlands, and I watch the landscape change rapidly below: Long, thin lagoons slice through thick fields of brown marsh.
If, on the other hand, there is a disproportionate amount of leverage on one side than the other, then the price will change rapidly, downward if sellers out number buyers.
By his own admission, Andy has not been at his best recently, but you don't become a bad player overnight and tennis is a sport in which fortunes can change rapidly.
Even more importantly, we can expect the basis of competition in those categories to change rapidly over the next few years along the lines that Geoffrey Moore described in Crossing the Chasm.
Fortunes change rapidly in the consumer electronics business.
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But Mr. Young expects this change rapidly.
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But such ideas can change rapidly.
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Commodities, with the exception of petroleum, do not incorporate technological change as rapidly.
"My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly, " she says.
Those affected by the change are rapidly approaching "number capacity" but other rural areas are unlikely to reach that level of demand for another 30 years or more.
But they have less chance of becoming big exporters of finished products, because the end users, such as car makers, may prefer having their sheets, plates and tubes knocked up locally, thus making it easier to change specifications rapidly, and reducing the need to keep big stockpiles in case of shipping delays.
It is now incumbent on ministers to reflect on this ruling and to rapidly change course.
But in remote villages of Africa, a quieter energy revolution is underway which could change lives more rapidly.
Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
Controlling the rate at which coins were created, he said, meant there would never be a surge or shortfall in the number of bitcoins in circulation, either one of which could rapidly change the value of each coin.
The fact is, people and political systems resist change that happens too rapidly.
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