If we used a bank of high-powered lasers, we could beam a high-bandwidth message across the cosmos.
Now that this massive collaborative learning project has succeeded, it would be a shame if we used it to take the humanity out of learning altogether.
Bono argued that if we used transparency -- which tackles corruption like nothing else -- and technology, we can get closer to the "Zero Zone, " where extreme poverty is virtually eliminated by 2028.
He said: "Adult dentistry wouldn't exist if we routinely used lasers".
And if we believe what we used to write about Jobs, the chances are the new team will be wrong footed and will make poor decisions somewhere down the line.
Because our power can only be used if we are willing to become even more involved with others all around the world in an increasingly inter-dependent world.
Learning about how we, ourselves, work and how we can handle changes if we go somewhere very different than what we're used to is something that's valuable also on Earth, because our environment changes on Earth, too -- and in terms of health and medicine, we understand better how our own bodies work.
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What if I built Iraqi village and we used it for healing instead of for training?
And my husband and I keep laughing that we couldn't have created anything more wonderful if we had, you know, used our own genetics.
But even beyond that issue, I believe that Biggio, Bagwell, Piazza, Clemens and Bonds would all deserve a place in the Hall of Fame even if we had definitive proof that they used steroids.
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We used to feel lucky if we got a car off the lot in the color we wanted.
Many kids used to ask us if we had anything with chocolate so we made up new chocolate pastries.
We used to joke that if HP came up with the idea for sushi we would market it as raw dead fish wrapped in seaweed!
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In the first Gulf War we made it very clear that if Saddam used chemical or biological weapons then the United States would keep all options on the table.
"There was no way I could give my all for Australia if I used the only two-week break we have to play in India, " he wrote in The Australian newspaper.
Recent research by Dr Stephen Porges into what he calls the Social Nervous System suggests that eye contact, if used correctly can actually make both ourselves and those we are with feel safer and more receptive.
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But if you saw it over an over and over again being used then we produced our own page.
"We used to argue about who the customer was, as if there was only one, " says Donald Goeman, head of the advance development group.
The problem is that if such a law ever passed, we all know it would unlikely be used solely to serve lower income public schools students.
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Tor Butler-Cole, a philosopher and ethicist from King's College, London, thinks we should be wary of allowing this technology to be used if it is not 100% accurate.
If used correctly, collaborative technologies can provide an entirely new approach to how we teach and how we learn.
"We can tackle climate change without having to resort to polluting nuclear power if we ensure all forms of renewable energy, including wave and tidal sources, are used, " he said.
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In our story, Billionaire Predictions 2010, we asked 10 tycoons if they thought Twitter would be a viable business and if they used the service.
The bots have yet to be used in real-world scenarios, however we'd hope that if one fell into a crevice, another one would come to its rescue.
Mr. BENJAMIN CARNEY(ph) (Behavioral Scientist, Rand Corporation): The saying in the military used to be: If the army wanted you to have a wife, we would've issued you one.
And if Governor Romney understood what you've been doing, he'd know that we used to have to import most of the parts were used for wind turbines -- they're now being made here in America, by American workers in American factories.
Moving on, the external touchpad is a Magic TrackPad competitor if ever we saw one, with support for all the multi-finger gestures you're used to making in OS X.
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