Leadership in a Wiki World by Rod Collins talks about in terms of the transition from a linear world to a wiki world.
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The new machine will be attached to a linear accelerator, a device used for radiation therapy, to allow simultaneous imaging and treatment, according to Sha Chang, who will lead the team that tests it.
"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.
Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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Instead of a whole new world to explore, we got a series of linear quests, a few new items and a scant number of new enemies.
It's an opinion that the secretary of state has expressed but there is no evidence that a linear exam would be more rigorous than a modular exam.
Rather than look at a purchasing decision as a linear journey, DecisionVue 360 views it more like a game of chutes and ladders with consumers favoring some brands and eliminating others along the way.
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He makes the point that the Fed response to inflation is linear, but inflation is a non-linear event.
The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approximates return as a linear function of beta.
Thinking of it as having a linear evolution, she says, is less beneficial, and less accurate.
Both rely on fast-paced, competitive multiplayer alongside a linear campaign built around enormous set pieces.
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More worrying, economists think that oil prices do not have a linear impact on output.
The game keeps you in a linear state, moving forward, shooting enemies, and taking cover.
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In books, radio, television, or film, writers draft a linear script for telling the audience what happens.
The story follows a linear, though sometimes thicketed, path, moving forward rather than in its own orbit.
The Stanford academics used the first of those ideas - what's called a Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model.
External beam radiation involves zapping a patient with high-dose X rays generated by a machine called a linear accelerator.
Our brains are wired for a linear world, not an exponentially changing one.
Some people are tangential learners, some prefer their facts in a linear fashion.
Likewise, a film maker who wants to evoke a certain holistic gestalt must translate his internal perception into a linear semantic narrative.
This CEO, like many senior executives, approached things in a linear way.
The novel's structure, which follows the seasons over the course of a year, is not driven by a linear sense of plot.
You let it sink in that your new task is building and funding a life and lifestyle, not managing a linear career.
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So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.
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Kurzweil : Because if I looked at the current situation, and then applied a linear expectation to it, and that is our intuition.
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Because business remains trapped in a linear mindset that does not compute with the up-and-down, interconnected, extremely volatile way the world now operates.
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Antonini, who was involved in the "Mortal Kombat" digital series, was approached by Microsoft and 343 about transforming an interactive story into a linear one.
It is very simple, a collar made of some plastic fabric on one side, and mesh on the other, that is essentially a linear pouch.
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