And just as atoms are being transformed into bits, Sikka said, so too are we seeing an equally profound transformation as modern technology allows people and businesses to separate content from its traditional containers, and recombine it all in new and more relevant and fluid ways.

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He said that Wang was chosen to continue the transformation of the venerable brand into modern luxury.

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The story told by the house that Mr. Davidson shares with his wife, Jessica, 35, is the transformation of a standard 1920s Craftsman into a modern, eclectic California beach cottage.

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It makes me see the transformation between the old and what happened in our modern times.

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He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.

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Modern economic growth, she claims, is a result of an ideological and rhetorical transformation.

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