And unless it is tackled, the prospects for future world economic growth might well be derailed.
The process of imagining a future world of our liking is a major missing element in our education system.
We are imagining a future world with our customers and then we make technology that makes our customer dreams come true.
"Yes, of course the plan is to get back in the England team, play in future World Cups, Lions tours and everything else, " he said.
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Since the Nokia announcement, officials in the mapmaking industry have been speculating about the shape of their future world if both these deals go through.
The RWCL board have indicated a strong preference for all future World Cups to be staged in just one country "unless compelling reasons can be presented".
He came to England as a 15 year-old, and will be a top 16 player next year - he is without doubt a future world champion.
This gave the bulls new confidence that any future world economic or geopolitical jitters would likely prompt more safe-haven investment demand for the precious yellow metal.
Khan has repeatedly insisted he is ready to step up in quality and progress quickly to a future world title shot, but Earl insists that is looking too far ahead.
Archaeologists have unearthed Neanderthal graves containing weapons, tools and the bones of a sacrificed animal, all of which suggest some kind of belief in a future world that was similar to their own.
"I think we definitely have a future world champion at hand -- but of course we have to give him the car to allow him to prove his talent, " declared Williams.
Chung explained that all associations would be free to apply to host future World Cup finals, providing they did not belong to confederations that had staged either of the two previous tournaments.
Perhaps to remind himself how tough the future world will be, Son practices his golf game at home, in an electronic range that reproduces the most difficult competitive conditions, including wind and rain.
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Kubica, hailed as a future world champion since he replaced Jacques Villeneuve at BMW Sauber mid-way through 2006, set about building enough of an advantage to enable him to make a second stop without losing the lead.
Here I can only say that any future world in which the Treasury is allowed to bully the Fed into providing it with more income would indeed be one in which price stability is endangered but only because the Fed will have lost its independence, not because of QE-related losses on assets.
In Dr Djerassi's future world, men and women will have their sperm and eggs frozen in their 20s and then undergo sterilisation, free to pursue their professional and sexual interests content in the knowledge that their cells can be safely resurrected and reliably made to unite in a test-tube whenever they want a child.
And the future of world meat production tastes a lot like chicken - but that's a story for another day.
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The rationalised process is part of a competition to find more cultural and natural heritage places of global importance, which are fit to become future UK World Heritage Sites.
Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
He claims (implausibly, say some suspicious liberals) that he did try, albeit unsuccessfully, to persuade Mr Delors not to let French farmers hold the future of world trade in the Uruguay round to ransom.
Much has been made of the fact Twell was quicker than the future marathon world record-holder over 3, 000m at 17, but by 18 their paths had already diverged, with Radcliffe's focus on the longer distances starting to tell.
During the Summit young people will share their experiences and enthusiasm for their local World Heritage Sites and their ambitions for the future of the World they live in.
UNESCO: 2015 UNESCO UK World Heritage Youth Summit Conference
The session will consist of plenary sessions, which will examine national nominations of World Heritage sites and address strategic questions about the future of the World Heritage Convention.
"The Brave New Unwired World displays a vision of future computing, a world where 6 billion people are connected online all the time through computing devices on their body, devices which connect to the Internet without wires, " said Jarrell Pair, director of Advanced Projects at Charmed.
Most importantly, it means that DBAs who have spent so much of their time, energy, and money in developing their skills in the traditional RDBMS world will have a new future in the Big Data world.
In the view of these two men, entrepreneurship is the future of the world.
Nor are they automatically invited to most meetings where the future of the world is discussed.
Investors generally believe that the future of the world is more uncertain today than ever.
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Electronics exports will remain important, because tech has a brilliant future in the world beyond this present slump.
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